Dress code. Some Muslim women embrace modest dress occasionally — a personal rhythm shaped by faith, identity, and everyday life. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans In Uganda, where ...

Now, Muslim women are pushing back too. The sight of women going to mosques in large numbers, especially to offer namaz, is still relatively new in India. But more mosques are making space. Among the ...

plus there have been reports of men distributing flyers on buses and in Umayyad Mosque in Damascus asking women to wear full-faced veils. In Christian neighbourhoods in the capital, cars have been ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from 1971 until 2000. Life under the Assads had meant more than 50 years of ...

While you can dress the way you want in tourist areas, in mosques, women must wear headscarves and men must wear pants. Mosques often offer free coverings at the entrance, but tourists refusing to ...

Before the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took power in Damascus, it ruled an authoritarian parallel state in Idlib for years. Will a similar regime now be applied to the whole country?

It is not permissible to eat their slaughtered animals or marry their women ... mosques, threatening congregants and accusing moderate Syrian clerics in cities such as Aleppo, Hama, and Damascus ...