Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in New York. So, in 2013, she started World Hijab Day – a day for both Muslim ...

Ivana Elliott alleges Bartow County deputies forced her to remove her hijab and strip during jail booking, prompting a federal lawsuit over religious rights violations.

Muslim women have spoken about how wearing the hijab is “empowering” in the face of a new poll that has revealed almost half of Britons believe that women are pressured into putting it on. The survey ...

During Islam’s holiest month, three Detroit-area women talk about the many ways religion shapes their homes, identities and ...

The Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) hosted a consultative iftar in New York on Monday, bringing together diplomats, ...

The Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women was designed especially for Muslim women.

Twin Cities nonprofit leader Nausheena Hussain wrote her debut novel "Prosperity with Purpose: A Muslim Woman's Guide to Generosity and Abundance." NINA MOINI: A new book is helping Muslim women take ...

Civic engagement — including volunteering and registering to vote — rather than religiosity was more correlated with giving by Muslim American women, according to research we conducted with our ...

From Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran, the symbol of the veiled, ‘oppressed’ Muslim woman is strategically deployed when it ...

Sabaya Club and other groups like Her Gather and Muslim Women Professionals are part of a growing movement by Muslim women to create third spaces where they say they are understood and don't have to ...

A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctions between conservatives and liberals, sexists and feminists.