At a small restaurant close to her office in central Jakarta, locals are becoming used to the sight of Tri Ningtyas Anggraeni clad in an all-black niqab, an Islamic garment that covers the body and ...

Hijab, niqab, burka - there are lots of different kinds of coverings worn by Muslim women all over the world. Some women wear a headscarf to cover their head and hair, while others wear a burka or ...

For some, wearing Muslim headdress is an assertion of religious and cultural identity. For others, it is a symbol of female oppression. Darshna Soni explains the differences between headwear styles.

Vlogger Sabrina Yusuf wearing a hijab (L) and a niqab (R) during a YouTube tutorial Youtube screenshot - Simple Niqab/Jilbab Tutorial The Qatar women's basketball team withdrew from the Asian Games in ...

I’ve had a drawn-out Twitter exchange recently about the importance of the hijab for Muslim women. The hijab is the headscarf worn by some Muslim women to denote piety and modesty. The debate focused ...

Siti Musdah Mulia can't remember a time when she didn't wear a hijab. Now the Islamic cleric sees it as her duty to don the head covering while in public. But the self-proclaimed feminist questions ...

The debate around Muslim women wearing face veils is not a new one. But as one 16-year-old pupil is barred from her school for wearing a niqab – a veil that shows only her eyes – the discussion has ...

The Islamic headscarf, also known as the hijab, is often worn by Muslim women as a symbol of honour in their faith. It's also often at the centre of heated debate. For the hundreds of thousands of ...

An 18-year-old fashion student is trying to decide whether to wear the hijab, the niqab - or avoid a headscarf altogether. Nishrat Islam, who is from Luton, said she was verbally abused by three men ...