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Scandinavian scarf or a dupatta: What the TikTok trend reveals about cultural appropriation in fashion
June 25, 2025 12:49 pm
TikTok’s latest style trend – the Scandinavian scarf – looks suspiciously familiar to the South Asian dupatta, raising questions about cultural credit, fashion appropriation, and who gets to profit from heritage.
Why directors of acclaimed film 'My Favourite Cake' were given suspended jail sentences in Iran
April 11, 2025 11:12 pm
The film, which premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival and received accolades in both Europe and the US, tells the story of a woman in Tehran experiencing a late-in-life romantic awakening.
What’s so special about a rainbow-check scarf?
February 20, 2024 1:32 pm
Those scarves come in many palettes, and they can be purchased for hundreds of dollars at department stores or for tens of dollars from street vendors
Principal of school at centre of headscarf row arrested in Madhya Pradesh
June 13, 2023 6:24 am
Late last month, a poster celebrating the school's success in class 10 Board exams was put up outside the premises, featuring non-Muslim students in headscarves. This set off a series of protests by right-wing groups, who raised allegations of religious conversion.
General headscarf ban at work is OK, says Europe's top court
October 14, 2022 8:27 am
The case concerned a Muslim woman who was told she could not wear a headscarf when she applied to do a six-week work traineeship at a Belgian company.
‘They have nothing to lose’: Why young Iranians are rising up once again
September 25, 2022 8:12 am
Iranian protesters in dozens of cities have chanted “women, life and freedom” and “death to the dictator,” rejecting the Iranian Republic’s theocratic rule by targeting one of its most fundamental and divisive symbols — the ailing supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
As final vote nears in France, a debate over Islam and headscarves
April 18, 2022 5:46 pm
In the country with the largest Muslim population in western Europe, what a woman wears on her head matters.
Barabanki: School principal bars student from wearing headscarf, govt orders probe
November 25, 2017 5:36 am
Rizvi claimed he had sought time to meet Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is scheduled to visit Barabanki on Saturday.
Stories from behind an innocent headscarf
April 27, 2015 9:01 am
A piece of garment can sometimes lead to interesting situations worth narrating. In my case it's the headscarf.
No cover up
July 01, 2009 4:08 am
When the French government decided in 2004 to ban the Muslim headscarf in state schools...
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