CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women -- than meets the eye. A recent declaration by a leading ...

CAIRO, Jan 30, (AFP) - Female students at Cairo University are defying religious and state efforts to ban the controversial niqab from schools and colleges, saying that wearing the controversial face ...

The woman who took the case said she chose to wear the niqab as a matter of religious freedom, as a devout Muslim The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the ...

as in the case of the burqa or niqab". It envisages two-year jail terms and a loss of the right to request citizenship for ...