Much has been written about various forms of dress and the history of veiling and unveiling in various parts of the Muslim world, and there is no scholarly consensus as to how it affects women. For ...

BEIRUT — I am a hijabi and come from a religious family, but that has never stopped me from criticizing the imposition of hijab on Muslim women or fighting against those who enforce it.

Every day before she starts her shift at a government hospital in Singapore, Farah removes her hijab--the Islamic veil she has worn since a teenager. Although minority Muslim women can freely wear ...