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 ...

Wearing the scarf “really does align with my ideals ... And I don't feel safe walking in the streets alone at night with the hijab on. And sometimes I even, if I'm wearing a jacket, I just ...

But now a generation of women is taking off the headscarf, or hijab. Although the scarf is a public, sometimes even political symbol, women say the choice to unveil is highly private, emotional ...

A woman named Ibtisam, a 56-year-old housewife living in Baghdad, said that fear of the militiamen "drove my 23-year-old daughter to wear the head scarf. ... We did it for security." The Hijab ...

The hijab remains the official law in Iran ... "The only thing that I can actually do at this age is to not have a scarf," she said. "To have the scarf or to not have the scarf, for me, is ...

I threw off my scarf at the courtroom entrance ... not be a Muslim and stay silent about Ms Heshmati’s flogging for hijab. “This insistence on showing the ugliest face of a religion whose ...

She was looking at a menu, wearing a simple green top and black head scarf. It was her first public appearance in the hijab, and within a week she had ten thousand new Instagram followers.

The January 14 decree made school uniforms compulsory, and effectively barred Islamic clothing such as the head scarf, or hijab. The policy has been enforced as of September 1, the beginning of ...

That day, we realized the importance of hijab for the Islamic Republic. It was more than just putting a scarf on, we realized that hijab is the identity of Islamic Republic, so to speak.

Assal appeared in public for months without a hijab, or Islamic head scarf, in solidarity with the antiestablishment protests that rocked Iran. Even as the demonstrations that erupted in September ...