Hmoud is a rising junior at High Tech High and lives in Clairemont. Eid al-Adha is a day I look forward to every year. It’s a time of communal prayer, attending mosque, visiting with family and ...
Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in New York. So, in 2013, she started World Hijab Day – a day for both Muslim ...
This story originally appeared on xoJane.com. I remember donning the hijab for the first time three years ago. I say it was the first time, but really it was one of many times that I had slipped it on ...
In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a ...
Before Sept. 11, it elicited stares and occasional comments. Since then, the scarf worn by many Muslim women has received far more attention than that. Now, even casual observers wonder why Muslim ...
Count on Muslim families to fight back and likely prevail. Nationwide, Muslims are taking up the battle in schools to protect traditional religious values, including modesty. Move over, Roman ...
Back in 2022, Ahmad Khan was an imam at the Maryam Islamic Center in Sugar Land, leading many evening prayers for the largest mosque in the Houston metro as part of the Islamic Society of Greater ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Caitlin Killian, Drew University (THE CONVERSATION) Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the ...
In a slap to Muslim girls at Stuyvesant High School in New York, the school is cancelling single-sex swim lessons, even though swim instruction is required to graduate. That forces the girls to choose ...
In a slap to Muslim girls at Stuyvesant High School, the school is cancelling single-sex swim lessons, even though swim instruction is required to graduate. That forces the girls to choose between ...