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 ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving. Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf ...

Europe’s traditions of secular tolerance appear to be haunted by the Islamic veil. Every week seems to bring new headlines announcing moves to crack down on the wearing of what critics appear to deem ...

TORONTO (AP) — A female witness can wear a religious veil that covers her face while testifying in court in certain circumstances, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday in a split decision in a ...

Syria has banned women wearing the niqab from attending its universities. JERUSALEM, July 20, 2010 -- In a highly unusual move, the Syrian regime announced a nationwide, immediate ban on women wearing ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In a new bid to curtail Islamist influence in society, the Egyptian ...

Fatima Mahmoud* decided to wear a niqab, a face veil, for the first time this summer while getting on the Tube in London. A man on the platform at Whitechapel station stared and shook his head, before ...

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 ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's High Administrative Court overturned on Wednesday a ban on female students wearing the niqab, or full face veil, in university examinations, saying it violated women's ...

‘I’m Muslim and wore a face veil for the first time. Then a man tried to hit me on the Tube’ Fatima Mahmoud* decided to wear a niqab, a face veil, for the first time this summer while getting on the ...