On the eve of a provincial election, Québec's electoral officer reversed his decision to allow Muslim women to vote without having to lift their face veils to identify themselves.
Schools will be able to ban pupils from wearing full-face veils (niqab) on security, safety or learning grounds under new uniforms guidance issued by ministers.
The Egyptian Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, recently asserted that the growing number of headscarf wearers in Egypt must be taken as a sign of backwardness. An interview with Nabil Abdel-Fattah on the background behind the headscarf debate.
Recently, there has been controversy around the veil worn by some Muslim women to conceal their faces. Many have viewed this as a conflict between Muslims on one side and the "Islamophobic" west on the other. Not so.
