hijab

My friend at State told me to immediately instruct Salima to change her hijab, and prepare to possibly change locations while we figured out what to do next.

She had negotiated a contract that would see her only work with agencies that let her wear the hijab and work only with female stylists.

The 23-year-old Somali American grabbed headlines by becoming the first model to don a hijab and burkini for the cover of Sports Illustrated.

This week, local journalists in Firoz Koh, the capital of the central Ghor province, circulated a photograph of a leaflet reading “Dear sisters, observe the hijab and do not walk around the city without a mahram.”

The next year, Halima Badri summoned the hurt she felt when a classmate commenting on her hijab said, “It really brings out your inner terrorist.”

If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?

Muslim Samantha Elauf was qualified to work at A & F—except that she wore a hijab.

That same day a 13-year-old girl was arrested with explosives hidden under her hijab after walking into a medical clinic.

Later that same year, she Instagrammed a photo of herself wearing a faux hijab before half-apologizing for it on Twitter.

He recalled one incident where he was walking down the street in Ohio with his sister, who was wearing a hijab.