A Canadian TV anchor appeared in a full face-veil (known in Arabic as the niqab) to present his show on Canadian Sun News TV, ostensibly in a bid to poke fun at the newly-launched Egyptian channel, ...

The first Egyptian satellite channel completely managed by women wearing the ‘niqab’ (full face veil) will be launched on July 20, which will mark with the first day of the holy fasting month of ...

A new television channel in Egypt, staffed entirely by women wearing a full veil or the niqab, began broadcast operations on Friday, the first day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. The new ...

The only visible female face in the Cairo-based studio of a new Islamic TV channel for women is that of a puppet. The human stars are all veiled from head to toe, with only their eyes showing. Maria ...

CAIRO - Egyptian Salafi sheikh Abou Islam Abdallah woke up one morning in 2005 with a brilliant idea. It was a dream he'd obsess over for seven years: a television channel run only by women wearing ...

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Music maestro A R Rahman, who is currently mentoring the reality TV show The Voice, was trolled online for forcing his younger daughter Khatija wear a niqab. Burqa clad Khatija was recently seen ...

Egyptian television's secular heritage is under threat with the launch of a new women-only channel whose presenters and guests will be distinguishable only by their eyes. Due to begin broadcasting at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GARY, Ind. – A Muslim woman says she was ...