Hijabs, or Islamic head scarves, are matched with flowing gowns.
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They wear dreadlocks and head scarves for both faith and fashion.
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In May, two Danes ripped the head scarves off two girls.
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Basketball's international federation lifted its ban on head scarves in May.
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"The head scarves are very Mediterranean, not just Arab," she said.
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Some in the audience gasp, including several women wearing head scarves.
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In the meantime, Smith has found a stalwart solution: her head scarves.
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The Syrian girls shopping with their mothers wear head scarves in white.
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He has required, for example, that female university students wear head scarves.
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Neatly dressed men and women in full makeup and head scarves took selfies.
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We passed three young women wearing calf-length black skirts and head scarves.
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At least a dozen women, Muslims, had worn head scarves while they worked.
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The ban applies to symbols such as head scarves, skullcaps, turbans and crosses.
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Women in head scarves leaned for comfort against the chests of their relatives.
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In both, the women were fired after refusing to remove their head scarves.
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His wife, also in a robe, and his two daughters wore head scarves.
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France has banned Muslim head scarves and other conspicuous religious symbols at state schools.
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" — Mr. Macron, on his website "I'm opposed to wearing head scarves in public places.
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The more well-known versions are all women or girls, usually in matching head scarves.
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Some human rights advocates have pilloried the law for stigmatizing Muslims who wear head scarves.
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On the porch, Aisha's cousins were braiding their hair, pulling on head scarves, drinking tea.
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Once the door was shut, they removed their veils and took off their head scarves.
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Denmark has barred judges from wearing head scarves, crucifixes, Jewish skullcaps, and turbans in courtrooms.
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France has also banned Muslim head scarves and other conspicuous religious symbols at state schools.
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Some wear head scarves and beards, while others prefer tight jeans and rolled-up sleeves.
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Bare legs, exposed shoulders and long blond hair mixed with head scarves and black veils.
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He says beards, head scarves and other public displays of religiosity are incidental to Islam.
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The women, wearing head scarves and traditional gowns, had come to Ms. Sinta for advice.
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Indeed, they have made it worse, even forbidding Muslim women from wearing head scarves in public.
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Along with the images of women wearing head scarves were a few who went without them.
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Coats have gotten shorter and more fitted and some head scarves are as small as bandannas.
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It applies to Muslim head scarves, Jewish skullcaps, Sikh turbans and Catholic crosses, among other symbols.
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Several of them wore head scarves, a common adornment for many women who are Russian Orthodox.
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The markers of Muslim identity — beards, skullcaps and head scarves — invite frowns, even violence, in India.
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The organizers handed out red flowers and head scarves, though few women in Afghanistan need more.
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But laïcité had been on the books since 1905, with head scarves nonetheless by and large permitted.
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There have also been protests recently by individual women against the compulsory wearing of Islamic head scarves.
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They wore an assortment of camouflage fatigues and traditional Kurdish flowing pants, waist sashes and head scarves.
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Nor, she said, did the women's black robes and head scarves refer to traditional Muslim female attire.
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So there is dancing, some people drink and head scarves tend to fall off with surprising frequency.
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The contractors in the head scarves and Lincecum jerseys may soon be turning their attention to something new.
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In front of him, the dim room was a sea of black: black abayas, head scarves, niqabs, gloves.
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Tourists strolling, a few people on bicycles in spite of the cold, women in head scarves pushing strollers.
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She explains that girls don't have to wear short shorts or go without head scarves when they play.
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Muslim head scarves, veils and burqas have also been a flash point in France for over a decade.
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Germany should finally do away with its "neutrality laws" and allow judges and teachers to wear head scarves.
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Women are required to wear head scarves, alcohol is prohibited and many offenses are punishable by public whipping.
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Today's picks: • A state party in Queensland has urged a ban on head scarves for girls under 10.
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"We do not want to get flowers and head scarves," said Zubaida Akbar, an advocate for women's rights.
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In April, the Party said that head scarves should be banned in schools and universities, and minarets prohibited.
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SPIJKENISSE, the Netherlands — He wants to end immigration from Muslim countries, tax head scarves and ban the Quran.
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Eighteenth-century tignon laws in Louisiana made it illegal for women of color to go out without head scarves.
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As women across New Zealand emulated her gesture of solidarity by donning head scarves, the Arab world took note.
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Ms. Sotoudeh was known for defending women who had been arrested for removing their head scarves in public protests.
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She gestured to a table where several women, their head scarves removed, sat laughing and talking with young men.
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In Jakarta, the capital, many Muslim women socialize freely with men, ride motorbikes and decline to wear head scarves.
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A year ago, she and a business partner started Asiya, a company that sells head scarves designed for sports.
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Michel Houellebecq's "Submission" inspired an essay on head scarves; "Gone Girl," a bleak and very funny piece on marriage.
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Asgar wore a topi -- a woven cap Muslim men wear -- and his wife and mother-in-law wore head scarves.
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On the website, women post images of themselves without head scarves, demanding an end to the compulsory head scarf law.
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Little girls in pigtails and teenagers in head scarves bend their heads in concentration, scrawling sums on borrowed notebook paper.
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It had women from all walks of life, some in Western clothes, others in full veils, head scarves and burqas.
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Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for defending women who removed their head scarves.
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The clothes kept pace with that eccentricity: royal blue turbans, a multitiered black pagoda hat and colorful patterned head scarves.
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New fans packed the audience; most notably, a densely packed mob of Japanese supporters wearing hachimaki head scarves and banging drums.
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Emirati women are moving away from the simple black shaylas (head scarves) and abayas (cloaks) Al Qasimi remembers from her childhood.
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When they went shopping, Zarifeh, 17, said, other mothers pulled their children away when they saw the women wearing head scarves.
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The bill also has echoes in Europe, where Austria approved a law in May banning Muslim head scarves in primary schools.
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Rifkah and her cousins perfumed their head scarves, too, by setting them on little easels and burning incense called udi underneath.
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Still, while many women scoff at the gift of head scarves, at least, they acknowledge, they are not being given burqas.
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Many of the women running for office eschew head scarves: Ms Omar in Minnesota and Ms Abboud in Arizona are the exceptions.
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Still, Hofer says Austria should leave the EU, wants to deport all foreigners, and wants to ban women from wearing head scarves.
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Despite having completely sold out, the head scarves have received criticism over their cost of 20 British pounds (which is about $25).
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The children led the audience, with some men in prayer caps and most women in head scarves, in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Women in head scarves filled the square, a truck played a song about Mr. Erdogan, and passing motorists honked and waved flags.
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One woman, weeping, rushed from the courtroom, and others used their colorful head scarves to wipe their eyes and cover their faces.
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During the same period, half a dozen women in head scarves told Mr. Siddique they had been spit upon on the street.
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In his suit and tie amid a sea of colorful dresses and blazers and head scarves, Mr. Prats Monné turned some heads.
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In 2011, he removed a ban on head scarves in universities, and in 2013, scrapped a similar ban in the civil service.
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On Tuesday, the E.U.'s highest court ruled that companies could ban the wearing of head scarves by female employees at work.
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Hadiza, 19, blends easily into the crowds of young women on the streets of Maiduguri, dressed in colorful dresses and head scarves.
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The children led the audience, with some men in prayer caps and most women in head scarves, in the US Pledge of Allegiance.
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She was about to give up when she rounded a corner and spotted it: Two women in head scarves walking by a mosque.
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Along with her bare face and freckles, the The Voice host is still rocking cool afros, her signature head scarves and fun topknots.
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In much of China, the white caps worn by men and the head scarves worn by women are all that give them away.
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In one, a Hasidic bride, in a veil that obscures her face, is flanked by women in high-necked dresses and head scarves.
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I saw women from Uzbekistan who had their national flag sewn onto their head scarves, and men with "Kurdistan" emblazoned on their jackets.
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His rallies were a hodgepodge of political symbols: rainbow flags, pan-Turkic banners, and Peoples' Democratic Party flags, head scarves and tank tops.
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Women in head scarves had become symbols, flash points, everything except individuals with complicated personal reasons for expressing themselves in a particular way.
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Under Mr. Raffarin, the National Assembly approved a law banning the wearing of Islamic head scarves and other religious symbols in public schools.
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Women had to wear head scarves at the holy sites, so I bought one at the market and always kept it in my bag.
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Two middle-aged women from Morocco wearing head scarves looked with curiosity at a pair of red suede platforms with a five-inch heel.
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According to court documents, Emirjeta Xhelili, 32, tried to rip the Islamic head scarves, or hijabs, from the women's heads while punching and kicking them.
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In the early afternoon, the hall began to fill with men wearing white head scarves and the traditional curved daggers, called janbiyas , in their belts.
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"Some women removed their head scarves and started to sing and dance ... this is disrespect to our martyrs and betrayal of the revolution," he said.
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The Times's Katie Rogers found that Ms. Massa was one of several hijabis, women who wear head scarves in North America, who are pushing boundaries.
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And a woman and children, bundled up in head scarves as well as thick blouses and skirts, crack smiles while surrounded by snowfall and houses.
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All of the players congratulated one another and then went to their bags, pulled out their head scarves and wrapped them around their sweaty hair.
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In the middle of white-bread Minnesota you'll see employees of the Mayo Clinic scurrying through the corridors in Muslim head scarves and Sikh turbans.
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He noted that women's rights activists in Iran have become bolder, sometimes waving their head scarves on a stick and posting videos on social media.
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Most recently, she has been involved in defending women who had been arrested for having taken off their compulsory Islamic head scarves during public protests.
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"Our moms are going to the mall by themselves, and get harassed because of their head scarves — especially after he got elected," Mr. Hassen said.
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In the neonatal ward, newborns gurgled in the arms of their mothers, who wore bright red head scarves that stood out against the whitewashed walls.
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In the neonatal ward, newborns gurgled in the arms of their mothers, who wore bright red head scarves that stood out against the whitewashed walls.
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He has opened scores of new religious schools, and removed restrictions on Islamic head scarves for women in universities, the army and the civil service.
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When Ms. Horani arrived with a large Arabic music selection on her smartphone, the scruffy interior was transformed into a bobbing sea of dancing head scarves.
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Since then, some of the girls have begun to participate in tournaments, at home in the ring in white track suits, head scarves and boxing gloves.
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At one point, two teenage girls, wearing abayas and head scarves, stood on their chairs to see better and sing along, and were reprimanded by security.
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The complementary patterns of the women's head scarves and the marbled side of the building caught Mr. Arnold's eye, as did the humor in this moment.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority barred several Muslim women from driving buses, and assigned them to depots for refusing to wear regulation caps over their head scarves.
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The decision to allow female soldiers to wear head scarves threatens to deepen concerns that Mr. Erdogan seeks to sever the country from its secular moorings.
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The proposal would not ban the wearing of head scarves that do not cover the face, like hijabs, the coverings most commonly worn by Muslim women.
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A month later, she gave an interview to federal television in which she criticized Kadyrov's policy of requiring women to wear head scarves in public buildings.
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Head scarves worn by some public school children "look like napkins," Mr. Basuki said last year when announcing this policy, using language that opponents considered inflammatory.
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Religious police in Aceh have also been known to target Muslim women without head scarves or those wearing tight clothes, and people drinking alcohol or gambling.
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Also crucial is protecting pregnant workers' rights, and putting a halt to the bigotry that leads to attacks on transgender women and women wearing head scarves.
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In 2014, the mayor of Wissous, in the southern suburbs of Paris, barred women in head scarves from a temporary beach, but courts struck down the ban.
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The U.S. military took steps in early 2014 to give individual troops greater latitude to wear turbans, head scarves, yarmulkes and tattoos if required by their religion.
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While head scarves and other religious symbols are banned in public service and in primary and secondary public schools in France, they are permitted on college campuses.
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An Islamic political party has governed the state for decades, urging Muslim women to wear head scarves in public and ordering Arabic to be displayed on signs.
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A cultural aversion to public expressions of all faiths still holds strong, but in recent years, it has focused on Muslim attire, especially women wearing head scarves.
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"Why do all the jihadis come to Birmingham?" he half-shouted, prompting a passing group of teenage girls in bright-colored head scarves to frown, then giggle.
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But for its next big fashion extravaganza, the museum is entering new territory — and moving from gowns to hijabs, the head scarves worn by many Muslim women.
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Afghans were curious that we wore head scarves and carried M4 rifles, not quite sure what to make of women wearing the uniforms they associated with men.
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Dozens of family members — teenagers in T-shirts, grandmothers in head scarves, bearded men in jeans — were there, squeezed together and pressing for information from overwhelmed officials.
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His images show Africans and South Asians in kufis, turbans, patkas and head scarves at home, at work, and at play, all as integral members of local society.
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The government offered no explanation, but at the time Ms. Sotoudeh was defending women who had been arrested after removing their hijabs, or head scarves, in public protests.
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It presents the biker jacket, chinos, guayabera shirts and kaffiyeh head scarves, including a new prototype, by the Beirut-based architect Salim Al-Kadi, in bullet-deflecting Kevlar.
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While browsing in an antiques shop, I spotted an item interspersed in clearly random fashion among the handsome head scarves, candy dishes, picture frames, vases and other collectibles.
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News site Yemen Now published a photo of a group of smiling, waving men in white robes and keffiyeh head scarves, which it said was of the soldiers.
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There was a sea of color, too — the pinks, oranges, yellows and blues of the official race T-shirt — and men in track suits and women in head scarves.
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It is illegal to wear a full face veil in public, and religious garments like Muslim head scarves, large Christian crosses and Jewish skullcaps are banned from public schools.
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They could be displaying the latest designer styles in Paris or New York, but instead they are here, in Istanbul, wearing high heels, flowing tunics and colorful head scarves.
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I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, and I was often asked to be the cultural ambassador of 1.6 billion people, to explain head scarves and fasting.
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Recently women have disguised themselves as men to enter sports stadiums and publicly removed their government-mandated head scarves, a risky form of protest that has led to arrests.
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Mr. Ghani and Mr. Stanekzai were still depicted, but four smiling women wearing head scarves that left their faces uncovered were added to the two with their faces concealed.
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There were tables of businessmen; a table of women in head scarves; a table of women who looked as if they had watched "Jersey Shore" and not been frightened.
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Many here think that it is a day like Mother's Day and that they should give gifts to their mothers, wives and even their female colleagues — especially head scarves.
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Relatively few Moroccan women wear the burqa, which is much more common in conservative Muslim societies like Afghanistan and Pakistan, but many do wear traditional dresses and head scarves.
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Women in head scarves sprawled, exhausted, on thick gray blankets flung on a strip of grass next to the highway, as children kicked plastic bottles on a small service road.
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The country's constitutional court last year struck down a decade-old law that prevented Muslim teachers from wearing head scarves in public schools, saying it violated the teachers' religious freedom.
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Banning head scarves from French schools became a way to deal with the anxiety arising from those domestic and foreign events, and to stake a claim to protecting French values.
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In recent weeks, as France debated the burkini, Turkey again chipped away at old taboos, allowing female police officers, for the first time, to wear head scarves on the job.
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There are no official statistics on the number of women in Germany who wear burqas or head scarves that cover their faces, but neither is seen much on German streets.
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As a growing global chorus of women demands attire in tune both with Islam and the societies around them, designers are responding with flowing printed tunics and colorful head scarves.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — The three teenage girls — shy and even seeming slightly embarrassed as they peer out from their Islamic head scarves — do not look much like a heavy metal band.
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That fall, two sisters, daughters of an Algerian mother who was baptized Catholic and an atheist Jewish father, refused to remove the head scarves they had recently begun to wear.
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A line stretched around the block as mourners — some in white medical coats, some wearing yarmulkes, black hats or head scarves — passed beneath the blue Romanesque arches into the brick building.
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Civil rights groups have monitored violence against U.S. minorities since Trump's win, citing reports of attacks on women in Islamic head scarves, of racist graffiti and of bullying of immigrant children.
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Female Muslim officers have for years been able to receive a religious exemption allowing them to wear head scarves, according to Lt. Adeel Rana, president of the NYPD's Muslim Officers Society.
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His mother and sister, who grew up wearing high heels and mid-length skirts, began to wear head scarves in the early 1990s to avoid harassment on the streets of Cairo.
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Last year, Uniqlo paired up with blogger and fashion designer Hana Tajima on a modest array of head scarves, pleated skirts, pants, and long dresses, followed by another collection this February.
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This past week, dozens of women made the same symbolic gesture and shared their actions on social media: taking off their head scarves in public and waving them on a stick.
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Tunisia banned head scarves in schools and government offices, placed the country's historic center of Islamic learning, Ez-Zitouna University, under government control, and installed state-approved imams and monitored mosques.
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"When I went to university, my friends couldn't come to class because they wore head scarves," said Ms. Cataloglu, who doesn't wear one, but whose mother and mother-in-law do.
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Then, through a slit in the back of the tent, young men with red-and-white head scarves covering their faces materialized, said to be newly reconciled Islamic militants from the village.
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In practice, however, France's roughly 5 million Muslims have felt targeted because laïcité has mainly translated of late into laws banning head scarves in state schools and face-covering veils in public.
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Head scarves in schools returned to the national spotlight in 1993 and 1994, as the French authorities worried that young men from Algerian immigrant families would join the Islamist insurgency in Algeria.
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As a growing global chorus of women demands attire that is in tune both with Islam and the societies around them, designers are responding with flowing printed tunics and colorful head scarves.
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Thanks to the costume designer David Hayes, this was Austin Powers decades before Austin Powers, a runway show of Day-Glo minidresses, paisley ascots, patterned head scarves and proto-"Seinfeld" puffy shirts.
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Delegates at the Queensland convention for the opposition Liberal National Party passed an emergency resolution Sunday urging a ban on head scarves for girls under 10, according to the Australian Associated Press.
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Kepel, who helped guide the law, says it was the rising prevalence of head scarves in schools that was sowing division and bias, and the ban has put an end to that.
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In a section devoted to the American home, members of local Muslim families tell their personal stories and showcase possessions like copies of the Quran, hijabs (head scarves) and tasbih (prayer beads).
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We chatted with her at the launch to find out the singer's secret to perfect eyeliner, signature jewelry style and how many head scarves she actually owns You've called jewelry your 'armor' before.
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Civil rights groups and police have monitored violence against U.S. minorities since Trump's win, citing reports of attacks on women in Islamic head scarves, of racist graffiti and of bullying of immigrant children.
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In their white robes and red-and-white head scarves, Mr. Ancarani's human subjects are less characters than pictorial elements — or, worse, occupants of the same menagerie as the captive predators they keep.
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Veils and head scarves are political and social lightning rods in France, touching on issues so sensitive — secularism, feminism and the integration of Muslims — that they seem to inspire anger wherever they appear.
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Photos and professionally shot video show her and a small group of women wheeling their bikes past ancient monuments, most of them wearing helmets while riding and some donning head scarves when they aren't.
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According to Europe's highest court of human rights, Muslim women in head scarves and burqas are simultaneously victims, in need of a government savior, and aggressors, spreading extremism merely by appearing Muslim in public.
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Rather than showing the group as victims, they come across like a fearless gang who hide out in abandoned buildings, ride around in a truck, don dresses, and head scarves while shooting their AK47s.
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The Iranian authorities have never specified why they seized her in June, but at the time Ms. Sotoudeh was defending women arrested when they removed their hijabs, or Islamic head scarves, in public protests.
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Wearing powder blue school uniforms and white head scarves, many of the girls, ages 133 to 18, had already been walking for an hour or more by the time they arrived at the school.
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After the 2015 shootings, Dr. Abu-Salha said, his mosque added armed security at Friday prayer services, friends bought guns for self-defense and some Muslim women stopped wearing head scarves out of fear.
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Mr. Erdogan has gradually ended those restrictions, allowing women in head scarves to enter campuses from 0003, work in the Civil Service from 2013 and serve in the military from as recently as February.
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There were women in ethnic tunics and men in baseball caps, a woman in military garb and others in neat black head scarves, alongside Mr. Esmaeili, beaming in a dark blue suit and tie.
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Small Heath Park, where girls in head scarves play soccer and men in Muslim garb huddle to share a picnic, feels like a different world than the city center, a 10-minute drive away.
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I was checking one woman out when she said, 'I don't even know why you have so many Muslim women working in your clothing department; they obviously don't care about it, with their head scarves!
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Suzanne Lamothe, a retiree whose house is next to the main Hérouxville sign, said visitors came to the village to take selfies in front of the sign, some putting mock head scarves on their heads.
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In sober suits and head scarves, men and women from the Bruderhof, a vowed community in upstate New York, stood on the fringes of the crowd, behind tables stacked with copies of their magazine, Plough .
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Among other hard-line policies, it advocates a ban on head scarves worn by Muslim women who work in the public sector and in schools and colleges, and a halt to granting asylum to refugees.
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Similarly, many women have replaced dupattas and chadors — the traditional ways of showing modesty in public — with head scarves and cloaks similar to those worn by relatives in the West, Saudi Arabia or the Gulf.
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Lawyers who wear head scarves, crosses, skullcaps or turbans will also no longer be able to work as external counsel for the government, or to represent it before the courts or with a third party.
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Rather than celebrating its pluralism, Quebec's government unjustly singled out Catholics who wear crosses, Jews who wear head coverings, Muslims who wear head scarves and Sikhs who wear turbans, subjecting them to ostracism and racism.
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Yes, the female actors wouldn't have had to wear head scarves in their homes, and perhaps the dialogue would contain more explicit language, but his larger artistic choices were never a result of pragmatic considerations.
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Women were barred from wearing full-face veils in public places in 2011, and last year the European Union's highest court said that companies could bar employees from wearing visible religious symbols, including head scarves.
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" He sees many Israelis newly arrived in Berlin tensing up at the sight of people in Muslim head scarves, a "reflex of phobia for Muslims," he said, adding: "I know it because I had it.
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Her father, one of the civil engineers who helped to modernize Anatolia, was politically a staunch secularist and privately a devout Muslim (though not a proponent of head scarves, which nobody in the family wore).
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LONDON — The European Union's highest court waded into the politically explosive issue of public expressions of Muslim identity on Tuesday, finding that private employers can ban female workers from wearing head scarves on the job.
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AMMAN, Jordan — In the middle of a roadless desert on the edge of Syria and Jordan, thousands of Syrian men, women and children have been living for months in tents made of head scarves and tarp.
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Some international players are saying they don't want to wear head scarves, but they seem to be making this statement for Iranian women, too: Iranian women shouldn't have to do this, so we'll make a stink.
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The women here usually keep their head scarves on when they play soccer in the streets or in practice, but during league games, they take them off just before the whistle blows for play to begin.
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Quebec, Mr. Bernier's home province, is also led by a popular right-leaning populist party that recently passed a law banning teachers, judges and police from wearing religious symbols such as head scarves while at work.
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Their posts carried the details of their lives — videos of the terrible traffic in Tehran; images of the cement factory where an acquaintance worked; selfies revealing how far back some of my friends wore head scarves.
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Head scarves, which Saudi women typically wear unfastened, have a way of slipping off, and Ferak fidgeted with hers as she described her conversation with the principal, repeatedly tugging it back down into its proper position.
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From gigantic colored dreadlocks to grungy top hats to colorful head scarves, the designer and Redken Global Creative Director and lead hairstylist Guido Palau always push the boundaries when it comes to the models' hairstyles each season.
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FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Women in head scarves slid off their shoes, stacked them in neat rows next to the mosque's entrance and squeezed together shoulder to shoulder in the small prayer space to listen to the imam's sermon.
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Picture Prompts A recent New York Times article reports: The three teenage girls — shy and even seeming slightly embarrassed as they peer out from their Islamic head scarves — do not look much like a heavy metal band.
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I knew that, even at the start of the twenty-first century, there still weren't enough checks on the military, and that women who wore head scarves were subject to discrimination, barred from certain jobs and universities.
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In the time since, the photogenic troupe of teenage girls in head scarves and protective goggles has shuttled between their homes in Herat and competitions in North America, suitcases bulging with robotics contraptions, trophies and rice cookers.
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All over town, men in drab Western garb or traditional galabiyas, and women in head scarves, regard me with curious or suspicious stares, which turn into smiles and greetings when I smile and ask them how they are.
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Three sisters wearing head scarves — Amin, Samar and Esra Salem, ages 18, 21, and 23, and all students — said they had voted for Mr. Van der Bellen but expected Mr. Hofer to get a majority in the district.
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Moves like declaring Gambia an Islamic state, forcing women to wear head scarves, and anti-LGBT rhetoric are seen by many as a way to gain favor with the Arab world as Western countries continue to back away.
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Women without head scarves can be seen everywhere in Tehran, in their cars, in shopping centers and even on the street, but always with the scarves draped over their shoulders, as if they have only just slipped off.
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But as more companies in the United States have embraced the hijab, women in Iran have been throwing off their head scarves, protesting religious restrictions — in particular a compulsory rule to cover their hair with an Islamic veil.
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While the morality police continue to roam the streets and at times arbitrarily arrest women they deem to be improperly veiled, the state has given up enforcing much of anything but the rules on head scarves and shorts.
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Whether mothers on school outings should be allowed to wear head scarves has become a particularly charged question, partly because French schools are seen as "sanctuaries" that shield children from external influences, religious or otherwise, Ms. Zuber said.
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ISTANBUL — Women in the Turkish armed forces have been given the right to wear Islamic head scarves in a move that represents a significant cultural shift within an institution seen historically as the guardian of Turkey's secular identity.
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Unlike the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing in Egypt, for example, its lawmakers include women who do not wear head scarves, politicians who have never called for Shariah law and others who portray themselves as conservatives rather than Islamists.
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An article on Wednesday about an opinion by the European Court of Justice on the wearing of head scarves by Muslim women at work misstated the effect of decisions by a separate European court, the Court of Human Rights.
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The ''Easter Sunday Church Service'' (1996), for instance, from a series he called ''Chasing Shadows,'' is dreamlike in effect, full of smoke and scattered light, as devotees (most of them women in white head scarves) gather around for worship.
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" Armanios and Ergene added, "In these ways, the debate over halal slaughter can indeed be seen as indicative of a larger culture clash in Europe, perhaps partially akin to recent attempts at banning clothing items such as head scarves and burkinis.
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In 2015, Hana Tajima, a fashion designer and blogger, introduced a collection of modest clothing — think head scarves, pleated skirts, trousers, and long dresses that were breathable from head-to-toe thanks to carefully draped fabrics and cutouts — with Uniqlo.
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Mostly, though, the political tensions are percolating into daily life through smaller aggressions, a dozen Muslims from across America said in interviews: casual comments from colleagues, children being bullied at school or hostile stares directed at women who wear head scarves.
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I saw fewer head scarves on my trip through Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania than I do in New York City, and any jihadist would tear his hair out at seeing women with bare heads and shoulders, not to mention shorts.
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In designing the products for the Louvelle Luxury Showerwear line of turbans, Simone Taylor, 33, took inspiration from stars wearing turbans and head scarves, like Beyoncé and Eva Mendes, as well as runway looks created by Missoni and Marc Jacobs.
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François Legault, the right-leaning Quebec premier, says the law — which applies to Muslim head scarves, Sikh turbans, Jewish skullcaps, Catholic crosses and other religious symbols — upholds the separation between religion and state, and maintains the neutrality of public sector workers.
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MONTREAL — The Quebec government on Thursday proposed a bill barring public school teachers, judges, police officers and other public employees from wearing religious symbols including Muslim head scarves while working, a move that could aggravate simmering cultural tensions in the province.
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It's omnipresent in the art and literature of Europe and the Mediterranean — and rediscovering its place in antiquity and in all three major Western religions might take a bit of the sulfur out of this country's fixation on head scarves.
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When Mr. Erdogan came to power in 2002, he vowed to improve the status of the religious majority of Turkey, who had been suppressed by the ruling secular elite, and the prohibition of head scarves at universities was lifted in 2011.
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And two developments in Europe on issues of free speech: The European Union's top court ruled that employers are allowed to ban head scarves and other religious clothing, in a decision that could shape the place of Islam on the Continent.
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Many Muslim women who were among the one million migrants who arrived in Germany in the past year wear head scarves, and they have reported being sworn at and spit on while waiting for a bus or sitting on a park bench.
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Women have not been required to wear head scarves, and while an order to do so seems unlikely, some liberals like Mr. Engin worry that it could happen, particularly in light of Mr. Erdogan's recent exhortation for Turkish women to have more children.
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In the mid-1990s, when the cornerstone of Turkish society was an aggressively secularist ideology, a ban on wearing head scarves in hospitals, courts, government offices and universities was a red flag for the Islamist Welfare Party, which campaigned vigorously to overturn it.
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Mine Kirikkanat, a columnist and writer from the old secularist elite, crossed that line at a public event last year when she made fun of the language of Islamist dispossession on issues such as Turkey's old ban on head scarves in universities.
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I completely agree, for instance, with Mounk's critique of Le Pen's secularism-on-steroids approach to public religiosity, which would try to suppress Islamic identity (and Jewish identity) in various ways, from bans on head scarves to rules against kosher and halal slaughter.
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A photo-montage here by an unnamed Soviet photographer, made some time in the mid-1950s, portrays a dozen fur-hatted soldiers and women in head scarves grinning in front of the 600-foot-tall Stalinist wedding cake that is Moscow State University.
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A photo-montage here by an unnamed Soviet photographer, made some time in the mid-1950s, portrays a dozen fur-hatted soldiers and women in head scarves grinning in front of the 600-foot-tall Stalinist wedding cake that is Moscow State University.
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He is more than an observer to this debate: Kepel was a member of the commission that helped create France's controversial 2004 law banning Islamic head scarves and other religious symbols and clothing in public schools, and remains proud of that role.
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Amid the euphoria of the Jasmine Revolution, the repressive apparatus of Tunisia's police state temporarily fell apart, and young men could grow their beards without being harassed; young women began appearing in public wearing conservative head scarves or even the full-face niqab.
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This week's disagreement stems from the publication of an article that suggested that the army's leadership was "uncomfortable" with the government, in particular over the recent decision to lift a longstanding policy that prevented women in the military from wearing head scarves.
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The ruling on Tuesday, which experts said was the first time the court had issued a ruling on women wearing head scarves while on the job, applies only to the workplace and provides a minimum legal standard that member states must meet.
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Yes, secularism is in France's DNA; this is the country that passed a law in 2004 to ban all emblems of religion in public schools, including Muslim head scarves, and a second law in 2010 to ban the burqa (full veil) in public areas.
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And the policy consequences are now becoming clear: The state has been empowered to seize cash and cellphones from asylum seekers and is planning to reduce welfare benefits to migrants who don't pass language tests and to ban girls under 10 from wearing head scarves.
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She sat on a special blue velvet cushion next to Anna Wintour and noticeably giggled at the nods to her own personal style throughout the collection (think swing coats and silk head scarves, though she later said that the florals were her favorite part).
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Ten years ago, Ms. Arslan was unable to attend a Turkish university because women like her who wore head scarves were barred from studying there, a result of rules established by Mr. Erdogan's predecessors, who were seen as enforcing a repressive form of secularism.
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The ultra-Orthodox population is highly visible in small towns like Monsey, where bearded Hasidic men in black overcoats and fedoras converse in Yiddish along the sidewalks and Orthodox women wear modest black skirts and head scarves as they go about their daily errands.
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During the political campaign, Mr. Blanchet railed against interference from the federal government in Quebec's affairs, and warned it not to challenge a contentious Quebec law that bans judges, teachers and police officers from wearing religious symbols like head scarves and turbans while at work.
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Ms. Le Pen's success was a victory for people who oppose the European Union and for those who want to see more "France first" policies to restrict immigration, protect French industry and limit public signs of Muslim faith, including the wearing of head scarves.
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"Me, myself, I'm not religious, but forcing our women to take off their head scarves is an affront to their dignity and makes many people angry," said one of the men, who, like others interviewed, asked to remain anonymous for fear of punishment by the authorities.
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Coachella is the season when stars, no matter their style persona the other 362 days of the year, go nuts at an Urban Outfitters, donning all of the head scarves, face crystals, flowy caftans, and skimpy swimsuits they can get their hands on (frequently all at once).
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On Monday several other women, a total of six, according to social media accounts, made the same symbolic gesture: taking off their head scarves in public and waving them on a stick, emulating a young woman who climbed on the same sort of utility box on Dec.
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But it is also a neighborhood where children play at checkers in the intricately carved doorways, mothers in head scarves climb the steep alleys after fetching their daughters from school, and enough of the whitewashed urban fabric survives to give a tangible sense of the past.
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Mr. Weinberg created a fake company, Abdul Enterprises (hence the contraction Abscam), with federal agents posing as sheikhs in Arab robes and kaffiyeh head scarves, with millions of dollars to buy political favors and invest in anything — a titanium mine, casino licenses, loans to the mob.
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While Ms. Hassanen was with a group of friends who were wearing Muslim head scarves and robes, the police in Fairfax County have said that the killing had resulted from a "road rage incident" and that no evidence had emerged to warrant a hate crime charge.
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Getting out of the car, I felt as if I'd arrived in the Anatolian countryside: the two main buildings were in the Ottoman style, with high windows and obliquely slanted roofs; women wore the stylish fitted head scarves popular among Turkey's middle class; everyone was speaking Turkish.
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In 2005, the province became the first to explicitly ban the use of Shariah law and, less than a decade later, the Parti Québécois government tried to pass a "charter of values" that would have banned provincial employees from wearing Muslim head scarves and other "overt" religious symbols.
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Editorial After bans on full-face veils, head scarves in schools and rules about students' skirt lengths, France's perennial problem with Muslim women's attire has taken its most farcical turn yet with a new controversy over the "burkini," body-covering swimwear whose name is an amalgam of burqa and bikini.
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Indonesia has long been considered moderate in its practice of Islam but since the end of military rule, it has steadily grown less tolerant, with one province, Aceh, implementing Shariah law and many local governments adopting Islamic measures, such as requiring women and girls to wear hijabs, or head scarves.
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"We've never seen it like this here," said Katerina Kitidi, a spokeswoman for the United Nations refugee agency, surveying the scene at the ferry terminal as women in head scarves huddled with children on a trash-strewn sidewalk near the sea while men stood in a snaking line for water and food.
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The Saudis blithely assume abhorrence at their inhumane behavior — from beheadings to forcing teenage girls without head scarves back into a burning school to die, as the religious police did in Mecca in 2002, to the brazen murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist — can be lubricated away with oil and money.
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"It could just be completing the process, having everyone everywhere able to wear head scarves, or it could be a way of humiliating the remaining Kemalist officer corps by breaking that last taboo," said Ms. White, the author of "Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks," a book about identity in contemporary Turkey.
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Yet my father had written the essay in praise of Atatürk in his high-school yearbook, his sisters were pro-choice, none of the women in his family wore head scarves except to do housework, and I had never heard any of them express the remotest hint of nostalgia for the Ottoman past.
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And on Tuesday night, Misk hosted an art exhibit in an industrial-style event space in the arts district of downtown Los Angeles, where women in miniskirts and leather pants mixed with young Saudi women in head scarves, while young Saudi men who live in Los Angeles worked as volunteer guides to Saudi art.
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For three days in the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, where an African-American woman was once denied the right to sing before an integrated audience in the 1930s, the Afghan girls in head scarves were stars on an international stage, with cameras, lights and whispers trailing them from practice to competition.
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At a school assembly, Lida and Kawsar spoke to hundreds of girls in matching black tunics and white head scarves about how the team had won the all-rookie award at a championship in Canada and how they each came home with six medals and how, above all, they were proud to serve their country.
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But in this case, the celebrants are violating no fewer than six of the fundamental laws governing personal behavior in the Islamic Republic: mixing of the sexes; women baring flesh and failing to wear head scarves; dancing; playing pop music; and, last but not least, consuming alcohol (in the vodka-laced drinks in the water bottles).
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There is something dizzying about looking at the images of the neglected and yet still lively details of the city I have spent my life in — the cars and the hawkers on its streets, the traffic policemen, the workers, the women in head scarves crossing bridges enveloped in fog, the old bus stops, the shadows of its trees, the graffiti on its walls.
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New rules were put in effect to forbid anything that might lead people astray and prevent them from ascending to a heavenly afterlife: strict controls on the media, which isolated Iranians from Western influences; an absolute segregation of the sexes in public places; compulsory head scarves for women; bans on alcohol and musical instruments on television; rules forbidding women to ride bicycles.
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Over the last few years, he has appeared on the streets and on Instagram wearing double denim; Tom Jones shags; Daisy Dukes; "Midnight Cowboy" looks that included individual rings spelling out, finger by finger, the word "STUD"; gay 1970s clone jeans and flannels; lace-front jockstraps with shearling bombers; Goa raver head scarves; embroidered Lucchese boots that were perhaps, in the end, more majorette than cowhand.
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And yet it is important that feminists try to walk this line and start to take seemingly impossible positions: defending the religious freedom of Muslim women who want to wear head scarves, while helping girls who are forced to do so, and addressing the fact that some men newly immigrated from Arab countries hold misogynist views — while stressing this is probably not the key factor that leads to crimes against women.
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For the next five hours, America passes by, wearing work badges, fanny packs, surgical scrubs, sparkly dance-short-leotards, suspenders, wool caps, head scarves, dreadlocks; pushing walkers, baby strollers, a fat-wheeled trail bike, a shopping cart (containing a bamboo cane and a Burger King crown); carrying walkie-talkies, books, a man-purse shaped like a gigantic tennis shoe, squirming babies, portable fold-up seats that never get used.
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