Today has been the hottest day in France since records began. The climate change implications of this are terrifying, and the country has been sweltering for the last few days. We are having a...
Boris Johnson has been making headlines all week following a column he wrote in which he described women wearing burkas as looking like letter boxes and bank robbers. He was actually talking about...
We're varying the nature of our weekly roundup a bit this week with a themed collection of reads on Muslim and Jewish issues, including interfaith subjects that touch both communities. We hope...
This week, the European Court of Justice ruled that it was legal for companies to ban employees from wearing the hijab, as long as such a ban is part of a wider ruling prohibiting any...
Good morning! It's been a hectic week around the world, but we're slowing down this morning to dig into some deep reads on topics like exploitation and abuse of women in fracking country and putting...
Just days after stepping into the White House, President Donald Trump enacted tight restrictions on refugees and immigrants entering the United States, stranding thousands of travelers around the...
There is a very different war going on in the world at the moment and that is the culture war in Trump’s America. Muslim women that previously felt comfortable and safe are now being labelled...
It has been hard to escape the recent controversy surrounding the prohibition of modest Muslim swimwear in areas of coastal France. The ‘burkini ban’ has been implemented in towns including...
Think about Islam and what women wear, and most people with think of the burqa. With France having already banned covering of the face, Muslim women in France report a rise in abuse, even if only...
On Wednesday 7th of January, Paris made headlines worldwide when two armed men burst into the headquarters of the anarchist satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to kill the cartoonists they deemed...