CAIRO — Adorned with delicate makeup, an anchorwoman wearing a head scarf appeared Sunday on Egypt’s state television for the first time in its five-decade history. Wearing a cream-colored scarf, ...

CAIRO — In what was called a first for Egyptian state television, a woman wearing a head scarf presented headlines in a newscast Sunday, breaking with a code of secular dress that for decades ...

A war is always more real to those who fight it and to those who find themselves living on or near its front lines when the shooting starts than it is for those who merely imagine it -- or think they ...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, three Palestinian college students were shot in Vermont, two of them while wearing keffiyehs, in a crime their families have said was “fueled by hate.” Although ...

Egypt's lifting of an implicit ban on veiled TV anchors is seen as an end to discrimination, but some worry it could lead to limits on women's freedoms. Cairo - Adorned with delicate makeup, an ...