(The Conversation) — One year into the pandemic, protective face masks have come to signify different things for different groups of people. At the same time, racialized perceptions related to masks ...

Americans began donning face masks this week after federal and local officials changed their position on whether face coverings protect against coronavirus. This is new terrain for many, who find ...

Swiss voters approved a referendum to ban religious veils like the burqa or the niqab. A survey found no evidence that the minority who wear a niqab are connected to extremism, instead choosing to do ...

(JNS) Bar-Ilan University said Thursday that it has barred a student from entering campus after she violated school policy by wearing a niqab—a long garment worn by some Muslim women that covers their ...

Morocco’s Minister of National Education intervened in case on high school student prevented from attending classes due to ...

One year into the pandemic, protective face masks have come to signify different things for different groups of people. At the same time, racialized perceptions related to masks have put an additional ...

A high school in the Essaouira province has readmitted a student wearing the niqab after initially barring her from attending ...

The niqab is a model of presence in which one side reads the facial expressions of those around her, but they cannot read ...

What clothes women are allowed to wear and whether or not men can have bushy beards are being debated again in Muslim-majority Central Asia, this time in Kyrgyzstan. The parliament of the former ...

20 September 2007 The recent decision by Elections Canada to allow veiled voters to participate in the upcoming federal elections without having to lift their veils has prompted a wave of objections ...