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The Hijab
A community portal about The Hijab with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Hijab is the Arabic term for "cover", meaning "to veil, to cover, to screen, to shelter"
From Bitch Magazine:
Since 2006, the elusive guerrilla artist known as Princess Hijab has been subverting Parisian billboards, to a mixed reception. Her anonymity irritates her critics, many of whom denounce her as extremist and antifeminist; when she recently conceded, in the pages of a German newspaper, that she wasn’t a Muslim, it opened the floodgates to avid speculation in the blogosphere. If her claim of being a 21-year-old Muslim girl...
- TX Doctor Told Clinic Rules Bars Islamic Headscarf (cbs11tv.com)
- US clinic denies Muslim doctor right to wear hijab (islamophobia-watch.com)
Princess Hijab, an apparently atheist 21-year-old street artist, has gained notoriety and some acclaim for "hijabizing" advertisements on the streets of Paris. Via Muslimah Media Watch : I would say my work is inspired from the anti-consumerist movements. I’m an...
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- Hillary's Hijab (slate.com)
Interesting points raised in this Toronto Star piece on a Montreal designer who's marketing a sports hijab. Apparently one public high school here has also created a hijab to be worn as part of the uniform. But some people are unsettled by the acceptance of a symbol that can be seen as a part of an ideological subjection of women.
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- Bans, Burqinis, And 'Bad Hijab' (search.msn.com)
- Visiting the Hijab…Again (muslimahmediawatch.org)
- Feminism and the Veil (soundprint.org)
In August 2008, a 32-year old Egyptian-born pharmacist named Marwa al-Sherbini took her son, Mustafa, to a children's playground near their home in the northern German city of Dresden.She asked a man to please move from a swing so her little boy could play.Alex Wiens, an ethnic German who immigrated from Russia in 2003, looked at her dark complexion and her hijab and began to rail at her, calling her a "bitch," a "slut," a "terrorist," an...
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From open.salon.com
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The Muslim Student Association of Western Illinois University discussed the use of a Hijab (headscarf) in the Union Sandburg Lounge on Tuesday.
Muslim Student Association members shared with people the reasons why Muslim women are required to wear a Hijab, how it's worn by other women around the world and the meaning a Hijab has to them.
From westerncourier.com
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- Wearing a Hijab (associatedcontent.com)
