Elnaz Rekabi gained global attention in October 2022 when she took part in championships in South Korea without wearing the headscarf required for women in the Islamic republic. She returned home ...
A loved piemaker that has been serving the people of a popular UK town is going to close its doors after 185 years. Burchall's in St Helen's is a family pie and pork butcher shop. It recently ...
In controversial comments, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Raghuraj Singh has suggested that Muslim men wear hijabs made of tarpaulin to avoid any inconvenience during Holi celebrations on Friday.
On the streets of Iranian cities, it’s becoming more common to see a woman passing by without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, after the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the ...
On the streets of Iranian cities, it’s becoming more common to see a woman passing by without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, after the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the mass ...
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Mehdi Yarrahi's 2022 song "Soroode Zan" (Woman's Anthem) also became a protest anthem. A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that ...
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Rights groups have been outraged over the hijab law and the cruel ways it is enforced. In December, Amnesty International said that Iranian authorities had imposed new draconian laws against veil ...
But revealing less of her body by wearing a hijab — a head scarf — along with baggy pants and loosefitting long-sleeve shirts presented its own conundrum on the basketball court.