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Posted by samya on 27 Jan 2017 / 0 Comment
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Huda Quhshi, 37, is opening the city’s first female-only beauty parlor catering to hijab-clad clients. Her beauty parlor, on Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, is called ­Le’Jemalik Salon — “for your beauty” in Arabic.

Recently, Waad al-Kateab won two awards from Amnesty International for her films documenting life in the rebel-held area of eastern Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.

Muslim women in different parts of the US turned out for Women’s March around the country last week. Buzzfeed shows published 36 powerful images of them.

A photo of Munira Ahmed, a 32-year-old Muslim woman and freelance interpreter from Queens, was the inspiration for one of the most popular images of the Trump resistance: a woman wearing an American flag as a hijab.

Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen today batted for Uniform Civil Code, saying that the measure was “urgently” needed to empower people with their rights.

Fiba, world basketball’s governing body, will this week decide whether to lift its ban on head coverings – a rule that has kept far too many players off the court

A Muslim mother and daughter have told how they were compelled to join Police Scotland after the force reversed a ban on wearing headscarves while on duty.


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