Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Egyptian women’s beach volleyball team have spoken out against France’s hijab ban for its athletes after competing ...

Egyptians watching state television Sunday witnessed a historic moment: For the first time ever, a woman appeared in hijab to read the noon news. State TV ousted its long-held policy barring the ...

An Egyptian Muslim girl writes about her experience wearing the Hijab (Islamic headscarf) and travelling to the US in this post. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples ...

An Egyptian women’s beach volleyball pair called out France’s hijab ban for its country’s athletes after playing in the 2024 Paris Olympics last week. Egyptians Marwa Abdelhady and Doaa Elghobashy ...

Over the course of the next couple years, Manal Rostom hopes to become the first Egyptian woman to climb the Seven Summits. The 37-year-old budding mountaineer, who currently lives in Dubai, is a ...

AMMAN/CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Egyptian TV presenter is being investigated by the country's media watchdog after she said women who wore the hijab were "100,000-times better" than those ...

(CNN) — Members of the Egyptian women’s beach volleyball team have spoken out against France’s hijab ban for its athletes after competing in an Olympic beach volleyball match wearing modest clothing.