The mass demonstrations in the streets of Iran are about the hijab. Well, they are and they aren’t. The protests began when the family of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, said she died in the ...

Wania Tayyab, 15, remembers the first time she wore the hijab, on a trip to Five Below when she was 12 or 13. “My mom said, ‘You’re growing, why don’t you try wearing hijab?’” Tayyab says she was ...

When I was in Iran on a reporting trip three weeks ago, one thing that struck me was the number of women walking around in public not wearing the mandatory headscarf. We asked why and heard a range of ...

This story originally appeared on xoJane.com. I remember donning the hijab for the first time three years ago. I say it was the first time, but really it was one of many times that I had slipped it on ...

My Hijab! What is it about my hijab that scares you so much? Why is it that when I wear a scarf around my neck, I am a modern, independent woman but when I wear that same scarf around my head, I am ...

“Hijab is our crown, not a crime.” That is the tagline of World Hijab Day, established in 2012 by Nazma Khan in an effort “to fight discrimination against Muslim women through awareness [and] ...

Iran is trying to reimpose strict dress codes months after a wave of unrest in which women and girls removed their headscarves in protest following the death of a young woman who had been detained by ...

The hijab has become a symbol of the regime’s hollow claims of moral purity at a time when Iran’s people are bearing the brunt of its economic ruin (fueled in significant part by crunching U.S.