This article explains what it means for women who CHOOSE to wear the niqab! The niqab, a face-covering veil worn by some ...

“They realize IâÄôm just a student, a friend, so they come to like me as a person and it goes beyond just the niqab.” Sheyba first began covering her face as a teenager in Kenya. When she moved to the ...

CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious ... and an ugly woman should wear it to hide her face." ...

Kyrgyzstan banned full-body niqabs, citing security and cultural reasons. The official Muslim body-backed law argues that the ...

CAIRO, Jan 30, (AFP) - Female students at Cairo University are defying religious and state efforts to ban the controversial niqab from schools and colleges, saying that wearing the controversial face ...

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil, the niqab. A case was brought by a 24-year-old French woman, who argued that the ban on wearing ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 20 - It is common sense to ban the Islamic veil in public spaces ... "suitable for hiding the face, as in ...

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The authorities in the southern state of Jubaland imposed a ban on the niqab -- a full-face veil worn by some Muslim women -- in the port city of Kismayo in 2021 for security reasons, although ...

Some Muslims are baffled by the level of political rhetoric around the niqab. Other than the fact that it is an election year, they can’t see why the wearing of this face-concealing veil by some ...