On International Women’s Day 1979, Iranian women protested Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s compulsory hijab and new dress codes ...

Senior Religion + Ethics Editor, Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative For people who would like to learn more about Islam, The Conversation is publishing a series of articles, ...

Sari Oktafiana receives funding from Research Foundation Flanders, VLIR-UOS. Late last month, a high school teacher in the Indonesian province of Yogyakarta reportedly forced a female Muslim student ...

Iranian authorities are again cracking down on women breaking the country’s strict dress code as they try to reassert control after last year’s momentous protests that were rooted in demands for more ...

Over the past two decades, women and girls in Indonesia have faced unprecedented legal and social demands to wear clothing deemed Islamic as part of broader efforts to impose the rules of Sharia, or ...

Iran is trying to reimpose strict dress codes months after a wave of unrest in which women and girls removed their headscarves in protest following the death of a young woman who had been detained by ...

Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf and morality police returned to the streets 10 months after the death of a woman in their custody ...