Radical Islam is invading Paris’s elite political science universities; or at least that’s what opponents of Hijab Day would have everyone believe. On Wednesday, April 20th, students at Sciences-Po organized a hijab day. Salaam Sciences-Po, the Islamic reflection group behind the event, invited people to don headscarves in opposition of Islamophobia. While Hijab Day has […]

So the French are talking about their enduring obsession, Muslim women and their clothing, again. I am a little late to the ball game on this one, but between a needed vacation and Handshake Gate in Switzerland, I had to walk away from the hate to keep my own sanity. Laurence Rossignol, the French Minister […]

Meet OOMK (One Of My Kind magazine), the collective championing Muslim women in the zine world, based in London, where faith, art, and identity are being explored. Playing instruments was banned during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, and many conservative Muslims still frown on most forms of music today. That is why this all-female orchestra in […]

Growing up in Mexico, neither hijabs nor niqabs were a thing. On paper, we are still a very Catholic country with 83% of the population being identified as such in the national census. Muslims in Mexico are concentrated among Lebanese-Mexican communities and southern Indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico. Broadly speaking, twenty years ago we were […]

Here we go again. Another terror attack and who gets the brunt of the backlash? Hijab wearing Muslim women; easily identifiable and perceived as easy targets. Very recently, two incidents popped up on Twitter; one in Croydon and one in Washington, DC. Matthew Doyle boasted on Twitter that he “confronted a Muslim woman in Croydon. […]

We have all heard of the male gaze, and some of us have heard of the contested female gaze where “the gaze” refers to the way images are created with a male (or female) subject in mind. I have been thinking about what “the gaze” might mean when the subject is Muslim. All this began […]

Saraswati, a make up artist from Malaysia, has captured the attention of thousands on Instagram, after using her hijab to help transform herself into popular Disney characters. Under the name Queen of Luna, Saraswati has shared over 300 posts with her 27,000 followers – each of them incredible and accurate recreations of different cartoons and […]

Earlier this month, the appearance of Indonesia’s first halal-certified hijab, sold and promoted by Indonesian fashion company Zoya, provoked equal parts protest and support. According to the certification given by the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), Zoya’s hijabs are ‘halal’ because the fabrics are produced with the use of only plant-based emulsifiers, and not those made […]

After almost 57 years of body-image debate, Barbie finally got an update. Mattel, Barbie’s producer, has announced that they will start issuing dolls that reflect more realistic body types.  At almost the same time, however, another Barbie-related sensation has been sweeping the web: Hijarbie.  Nigerian medical scientist and fashion enthusiast Haneefa Adam decided to start […]

 Amaal Said, a 20-year-old Danish-Somali photographer and poet, has quickly garnered a following through not only her striking selfies, but also in the illuminating portraits she makes of fellow Londoners. How the unique Arabimalayalam dialect came in handy to Muslim women in Kerala to connect with each other and overcome muting efforts from conservative sections […]