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Posted by samya on 27 May 2016 / 0 Comment
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A travelling exhibition showcasing Muslim fashion in Australia has opened at the National Archives in Canberra. Australian fashion designers have tapped into an international market of women who want fashionable clothing that still adheres to Muslim tenets of modesty.

Muslim women are much less likely to have a graduate level job than Christian women with the exact same qualifications and are also less likely to receive replies to job applications, researchers found.

Mango launches a new range for Muslim women featuring modest dresses, tunics and leggings in time for Ramadan. Collection features kaftans, flowing jackets and oversized shirts.

Seventy-year-old Bader Sayeed, a lawyer, activist and a former lawmaker from Tamil Nadu, India has moved the Supreme Court challenging triple talaq, the system by which a Muslim man can unilaterally divorce his wife under Shariat law.

A younger generation of Muslim American women is testing the American political waters, urged on by ambitious men like Shukoor Ahmed and Hamza Khan, a Democratic activist who chairs the Muslim Democratic Club of Montgomery County.

Determined to shift the terms of the conversation on Islam, Amirah Sackett teamed up with dancers Iman and Khadijah to create WMDC, a three-woman performance group that executes flawless hip-hop numbers in niqab and high-tops.

As a Muslim woman who wears the headscarf in America, 22-year-old Nura Takkish says she expects to be the target of Islamophobia — just not when she and her friends are enjoying ice cream at their neighborhood ice cream parlor, before which she responds perfectly.

The popular “100 Years of Beauty“ videos are known for highlighting how fashion trends in a specific country change over time. Now, MuslimGirl.com has released its own twist on this format by focusing on the hijab.


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