Countries from Italy to Sweden are debating the right of women to wear the niqab. ... Niqab, the Pseudo-Islamic Face-Veil by Stephen Schwartz. December 3, 2009, 10:07 AM ...

When France banned full-length veils in 2010, some of the women who wore the niqab switched to the jilbab, which covers the whole body except the face, while others gave in to public pressure and ...

But the biggest dispute has been over the niqab - a full facial veil that leaves only a slit for the eyes that re-emerged in Egypt in the late 1980s and has since grown in popularity, both in the ...

Many Iraqis once saw the niqab as a symbol of female piety. But the presence of ISIS—and its insistence that women cover up—has sparked a backlash against the full-face veil.

When you meet Rahmanara Chowdhury, she tends to look you straight in the eye. Given that her eyes are the only part of her face that most people are permitted to see, this is significant.Chowdhury ...

Niqab (Yemen) A veil for the face that exposes only the eyes, sometimes obscured by a separate eye veil. It is worn with a headscarf, such as a khimar. Displayed only in black.

Civil Liberties. Muslim Women Who Wear Veils Are Choosing to Be Unequal Even in liberal democracies, Muslim women who cover their faces relegate themselves to second-class citizenship.

As Sri Lanka's long civil war ended in this once-contested region along its eastern coast, Muslim women eager to show their piousness began wearing the black niqab veil to hide their faces.

With the growing popularity of full Muslim veils, secular Arab governments such as the one in Egypt worry they will lose ground to Islamic opposition groups. Skip to content. Coronavirus; ...

Burkinis banned on dozens of beaches, no veils in schools, no niqabs in the neighbourhood: in staunchly secular France, the law imposes an array of ...

A 28-year-old woman became the first person in Denmark to be fined under a new law which prohibits wearing garments which cover the face in public after an incident at a shopping center on Friday.

After the niqab: What life is like for French women who remove the veil. A number of women who once wore and defended the full Islamic veil known as the niqab later chose to renounce it.