Muslim women have spoken about how wearing the hijab is “empowering” in the face of a new poll that has revealed almost half of Britons believe that women are pressured into putting it on. The survey ...

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 ...

As one of the two Muslim women in the house—alongside Trinamool Congress's Sajda Ahmed—Choudhary, who represents Kairana in ...

Civic engagement — including volunteering and registering to vote — rather than religiosity was more correlated with giving by Muslim American women, according to research we conducted with our ...

What does it mean to be a Muslim in the modern world? That is the fundamental question that underpins the work of Nida Manzoor, whose creativity spans music, film and television. The question may come ...

An Afghan woman in a burqa crosses a cemetery where children are flying their kites on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. During the Eid al-Adha holidays, families often ...

As a young girl growing up in New Jersey in the wake of 9/11, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh concealed the fact that she was Muslim to avoid negative judgment from her peers. When she was 13, her family ...

Sabaya Club and other groups like Her Gather and Muslim Women Professionals are part of a growing movement by Muslim women to create third spaces where they say they are understood and don't have to ...

Donald Trump's recent comments that Islam hates the United States is just the latest in a series of anti-Muslim statements he has made that fuel Islamophobia. Not only are Muslim communities worldwide ...

A sharp exchange broke out in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, April 16, as three bills to amend the women’s reservation framework ...