Word: hijab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only fitfully observed under the rule of the secular Fatah party. As he offers visitors a bowl of fruit, al-Bitawi recalls how, after returning to the West Bank from religious studies in Jordan in the 1970s, he looked for a future wife who covered herself in the traditional hijab, or head scarf, and the body- length jilbab. "I couldn't find a girl for months," he says. "Nowadays, 70% of Palestinian women wear these clothes. It's normal." To al-Bitawi, the change is a sign that more Palestinians are adopting the fundamentalist values that Hamas espouses. "Of course...
...Harvard’s campus, Huma Farid ’06 reported this November that a group of women yelled “filthy Jew-hater” at her because of her Muslim background. At the time of the verbal attack, Farid was wearing the hijab, or head scarf, indicating her Muslim faith...
...charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime, a Class E felony, and face a maximum sentence of four years in prison. The most recent reported bias incident at Harvard occurred three weeks ago. Huma Farid ’06, who is Muslim and wears a head scarf, or hijab, was crossing the street by Lamont Library when a group of women called her a “filthy Jew-hater.” Last spring, Galo Garcia III ’05 was punched as he was leaving a dance sponsored by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters...
...over again. I turned around, and this woman—in her 40’s, middle aged, white—was chasing me.” Farid—who wrote in an e-mail that she believes she was targeted because she “wears Hijab and thus looks obviously Muslim”—said that she ran across the street, where she bumped into friends who escorted her back to her room in Eliot House. She then reported the incident to both the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and CPD. CPD Spokesman Frank...
...Sept. 11, 2001, "changed the role of the American imam for good," Magid believes. Muslims in this country found their religion under attack. His female congregants who wore the hijab, or traditional scarf, on their head were harassed at shopping centers. Last year a man shouted "Terrorists!" at the mosque's Girl Scouts as they sold cookies at a nearby grocery store. And since 9/11, the ADAMS center has been vandalized four times and the graffiti GO HOME painted on its walls...