CAIRO (AP) — Across the Middle East and elsewhere, some conservative Muslim women only look out at the world around them from behind the niqab. For most, the niqab is a choice. They do so out of their ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...

(JNS) Bar-Ilan University said Thursday that it has barred a student from entering campus after she violated school policy by wearing a niqab—a long garment worn by some Muslim women that covers their ...

ADVERTISEMENT Ghani said she supported the ban. 'Regarding the French law against the niqab and burqa which prevent women from being able to move freely and see, because the niqab is a bit like ...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned an upcoming movie featuring Nancy Isime and other actresses wearing purdah (Niqab) and brandishing weapons, describing it as “satanic” and “Islamophobic ...

The decision, however, has triggered a political row, with Bihar’s main Opposition party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), criticising the move and demanding its immediate withdrawal.