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Topic: Hijab

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in her support in front of the Iranian embassy in Brussels on September 23, 2022, following the death of an Iranian woman after her arrest by the country's morality police in Tehran. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)

Sanctions won't help Iranian women

Samaa Khullar
Two Muslim women wearing the niqab take a selfie during the demonstration against the law established by the government banning the use of the niqab in some public places in The Hague, Netherlands (Nacho Calonge/Getty Images)

Wearing a niqab in a mask-wearing world

Anna Piela - The Conversation
(Getty/Patrick Baz)

Québec’s hijab ban is "sexularism"

Yasmin Jiwani - The Conversation
In this Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, photo, a pedestrian walks past a Gap store in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (AP)

Gap "hijab ad" ignites social media

Nadia Naffi - The Conversation
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(Twitter/@MaajidNawaz)

Women in Iran again protesting the veil

Negar Mottahedeh
New emoji of woman with headscarf (Apple)

Hijab emoji riles bigots

Matthew Rozsa
(AP)

Z. Fareen Parvez - The Conversation
People walk the terminal at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Flights remained delayed or canceled in the aftermath of a massive weekend blizzard that slammed into the eastern U.S., wreaking havoc on travel in the nation’s busiest cities, with airports in the New York City and Washington D.C. metro areas were the hardest hit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Sophia Tesfaye
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"Black Like Me," Tyra Banks in a fat suit. (Panther/ABC)

Stunt journalism is thriving

Julia Carrie Wong

Laila Alawa - DAME
(AP/Hassan Ammar)

Sara Yasin
Photograph of the author

My year of modesty

Lauren Shields
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