Recently, while packing for my fifth appearance at the Triathlon Long Course National Championships in Miami, Florida, I thought about Noor Abukaram, the 16-year-old cross-country runner who was ...

The sport hijab has gone mainstream. Nike's "pro hijab" went on sale in the US Wednesday after rolling out in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa earlier in the month. Nike's campaign comes complete with ...

Barbie created its first hijab-wearing doll modeled after Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad Barbie’s breaking barriers! Ibtihaj Muhammad was the first-ever U.S. Olympic athlete to compete wearing a ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Rio 2016 is proving not just to be a platform for sporting prowess, it is also helping to shake up some ...

An assistant manager at a Chipotle restaurant in Kansas "yanked" off a Muslim teen worker's hijab, a religious head covering, after she repeatedly refused to show him her hair, a lawsuit alleges. The ...

A young girl, Saira Ramadhan, drops out of St Mary's Lwak High School after being asked to remove her hijab, sparking a debate on religious freedom in education.

One widely circulated video showed a young Iranian American woman dancing provocatively to what online observers dubbed the ...

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 ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Billboards across Iran's capital proclaim that women should wear their mandatory headscarves to honor their mothers. But perhaps for the first time since the chaotic days following ...

In December, Nike released its first pro hijab, a pull-on head covering for Muslim women athletes. Nike isn’t the first company to offer a sports hijab—at least three others, Capsters, Asiya, and ...