Bans on face-covering garments have been sparking intense debate worldwide. Kazakhstan has become the latest country in Central Asia to impose a public ban on face-covering garments, with President ...

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Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s preference that Muslim women visiting his office remove their veils ignited a heated debate Friday about cultural isolation and tolerance in Britain. Subscribe to ...

Wearing a Muslim veil revealing only her chestnut eyes, Maheesa Razia grabbed two small bundles of coriander and handed them to a vegetable vendor at the Whitechapel Street Market in east London.

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s, ...

We know what Jack Straw thinks about Muslim women who wear the veil. President Sarkozy told the French Parliament and nation what he thinks. But women who wear the veil in public are scarcely ever ...