The veiled Saudi woman faces many predicaments when she travels abroad and is often the target of glares from curious onlookers. In many cases, instead of diverting attention, women who wear the niqab ...

Joss Stone has sparked an online debate about the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia after sharing a photograph of herself wearing a pink niqab on social media. In the Instagram caption, the singer ...

Three colleagues and I had the privilege of doing workshops in Riyadh for 80 Saudi Arabian women higher education administrators last week. The Ministry of Education through the Academic Leadership ...

Countries from Italy to Sweden are debating the right of women to wear the niqab. Canada is the latest country to enter the fray, with the Muslim Canadian Congress desiring to ban it. Is such a ban ...

Alternative Saudi Voices’ Ahmed Bagadoodoffers his perspective on the niqab (face cover worn by some Muslim women) and freedom. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples ...

Rana Jarbou (@rjarbou) is a Saudi blogger who has decided to carry out an experiment. For a week she is wearing the niqab or face veil, to see how she feels, and to see if she is treated differently.

Rana Jarbou is conducting an experiment, using herself as the guinea pig. For one full week, the 30-year-old resident of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is wearing the niqab when she leaves home — a traditional ...

BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Saudi women are stepping on the face veils some are made to wear in the conservative kingdom and posting it on social media with the hashtag "the niqab under my ...