Countries from Italy to Sweden are debating the right of women to wear the niqab. Canada is the latest country to enter the fray, with the Muslim Canadian Congress desiring to ban it. Is such a ban ...

Earlier this month, a British judge ruled that a Muslim woman must remove her veil while delivering evidence in court. In arriving at his decision, Judge Peter Murphy had to balance the interests of ...

A movement of Indonesian women promotes the niqab veil as a way to get closer to heaven and avoid sexual harassment. Others fear it reflects growing extremism. Ratu Elika, 20, during an afternoon ...

Anne Applebaum, a Washington Post columnist, reminded me how far apart cultures of different races can be. On Wednesday, the Herald carried Applebaum's column, in which she wrote about a Muslim woman ...

Wearing a Muslim veil revealing only her chestnut eyes, Maheesa Razia grabbed two small bundles of coriander and handed them to a vegetable vendor at the Whitechapel Street Market in east London. She ...

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld a Belgian ban on wearing the full-face niqab veil in public, calling the restriction "necessary in a democratic society". The veil is a ...

Agnès De Féo is co-founder of Sasana Productions and teaches at the journalism school CFPJ. But what happens when a woman who has worn a niqab, sometimes for years, makes the decision to leave it ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Aysha Obeid couldn't get a job as a shop assistant in Dubai because of the veil that covered her face, exposing only her eyes to the outside world. So to improve her employment ...

Anna Piela does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld a Belgian ban on wearing the full-face niqab veil in public. The court ruled that the restriction sought to guarantee social cohesion, the ...