This week a set of photos went viral capturing side-by-side glimpses of a burkini-clad Muslim woman surrounded by officers who then forced her to remove her burkini. The burkini is a swim-suit ...

Australian Lebanese designer Aheda Zanetti (centre), has been vocal about the burkini's ban on certain French beaches. Credit: SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images The controversy over banning the burkini on ...

That’s how some women working in the Islamic fashion industry view the furor in France over burkinis, the body-concealing swimsuit that has been banned in a growing number of seaside towns. “I am ...

The sight of burkini-wearing women getting kicked off French beaches by police became a point for immense controversy over the European summer. That incident followed a ban on the swimming garment ...

In several cities in the south of France, the burkini, a swimsuit that covers everything except your face, hands and feet, has been banned. As expected, this has caused outrage across the world, with ...

Last Friday's decision overturning a local burkini ban in France was a welcome victory for tolerance and religious freedom. But it relied on a narrow reading of public policy goals that supporters of ...

CAIRO — Nada Kabil thought her friends had checked in advance about whether it was OK to wear a hijab at the ACE Club, a country club for expatriates in Cairo’s upscale Maadi district. So, she was ...

Halima Aden is still stunned she’s made history. The Somali-American model previously made headlines at age 19 when she competed in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant as the first person to ever wear a ...

Several Muslim women swimming or reclining on French beaches in hijabs this month were stopped by police officers threatening to issue them a fine if they don’t remove some of their clothing or leave ...

The burkini has been everywhere these days. The full-length swimwear garment that is a portmanteau of burqa and bikini has been making headlines after a number of French cities banned them on their ...

The French Riviera resort Cannes was the first to temporarily ban the burkini — full-body swimwear Muslim women wear at public beaches and pools — on July 28, in the wake of multiple terrorist attacks ...