The niqab, a face-covering veil worn by some Muslim women, is often misunderstood and misrepresented in Western discourse.

The debate over a witness's niqab has exposed tension between the constitutional right to religious expression and a ...

Religious liberty must be balanced against other values. Not surprisingly, they become the stuff of intense legal and ...

But in a group I have studied since 2013 – Muslim women in the West who wear the niqab, or the Islamic veil, along with a headscarf, the experiences have been more positive. Niqab wearers are a ...

The niqab is a veil that conceals the face. It is worn along with a headscarf, leaving only the eyes exposed. The covering usually flows down to the mid-back and may carry on down to the mid ...

Idhanur is part of a growing, peaceful movement of Muslim women who believe they can receive rewards from God through Islamic activities like wearing a niqab and practising sports that the prophet ...

The ban imposed by French President Sarkozy on wearing a face-covering veil, or niqab, is simply dangerous gesture politics, representing little more than pandering to the far right in France. The ...

Kyrgyzstan has become the latest country in Muslim-majority Central Asia to ban the Islamic niqab, a long garment that covers the body, hair, and face, except the eyes. Effective February 1 ...

says she is seeking to break stereotypes about Muslim women in Nigeria as she demonstrates cooking on Instagram wearing a niqab face veil. Sign up here. Nigeria is almost evenly divided between ...

Women wearing niqab (full Islamic face-veil) will not be allowed to vote in this month’s parliamentary election, the electoral commission has said. Speaking at a press conference in Cairo on ...