Headscarf

Muslims to work. According to New York Times, “On Sept. 1, the commission filed a case against Abercrombie & Fitch, the fashionable clothing retailer, accusing it of discrimination for refusing to hire an 18-year-old Muslim because she was wearing a headscarf.” Some got fired, while other quit because of the harassment and hate they were

Fear. The first emotion that chilled my spine when my English teacher placed me in a group with Aaliyah, a Muslim classmate, to discuss our ideas on our reading assignment.¬ Why would she pick me to be in this group? Why is she wearing that scarf around her head? Are her and her family planning on bombing our school in the near future? As my heart was beating out of my chest, these were questions that filled my head while walking over to the assigned group. As we began to converse on the topic of

2. Facts- Abercrombie and Fitch is a national clothing retail chain that is designed to come across as preppy and modern to appeal to their relatively youthful market. Their stores require that employee’s meet a certain standard of appearance, and requires that it’s employees follow a “look policy”, in which mentions the banning of black clothing items and “caps”, though no specific definition for caps is stated in said looks policy. In a potential employee’s interview for a job placement within

had killed him, destroying her, and now Jo was going to destroy one of them. Soon after she and her mom received news of Jo’s father, Sabrina showed up at school. The instant Jo saw her, Jo knew she was from Iran. She wore a beautiful green headscarf, and her face showed her origins as much as Jo’s did. Before, Jo might have been happy to meet her--after all, they were from the same country--but, now, she wasn’t. Not at all. Her mind traveled back to Iran, the red velvet couch she so often flopped

What if the Iranian Islamic Revolution never happened? As an Iranian who have grown up after revolution, it is hard to say how Iran would be different if we never had the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Based on a memory that my parents have shared to me about Iran prior to the Islamic revolution, I can imagine that without the revolution we would have a different life. The most highlighted is the religious tolerance. A few months after the Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini dictated the mandatory hijab

First of all, what the first thing that appears in your mind if I say about traditional market? Maybe about 70% of people in this class will imagine the place that hot, dirty, tarnish, and stink. Although, the meaning of market is not only the meeting place for sellers and buyers, but also interaction among the people. And the fact is the traditional market is not the ‘instagramable’ place for taking a picture and upload to social media, right? But, do you know that economic activity in traditional

Hurston cites many instances of gender roles and inequality in Janie’s marriages. In Janie’s relationship with Joe (Jody) Starks, Jody becomes increasingly controlling of Janie’s actions and decisions. Eventually, Jody decides that Janie must wear a headscarf in public saying, “Her hair was NOT going to show in the store.She was there in the store for him to look at, not those others”(Hurston 55). According to Jody, Janie’s only purpose in public is “for him to look at, not those others.” Jody sees Janie

Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc., commonly known as simply “Abercrombie”, is a national chain of clothings stores in America that requires all its employees to comply with a certain “Look policy” that reflects the store’s fashionable style and prohibits black clothing and caps, although the exact definition of the word “caps” is not explicitly stated in the policy. If a question is raised about the Look policy, or an applicant requests a accomodation or deviation from it, the interviewers of the store

don’t go there very often. I think it would be necessary to save as much as I can. I know it doesn’t seem as important, but it’s important to me. The headscarves protect me from evil, and I’ve been wearing the headscarf for over two years. Honestly it would be weird not to wear my headscarf. I wouldn’t want the headscarves to burn in the fire, because it has a beautiful meaning to me in my religion and in my heart. So that’s the last thing I would save in the

support in “‘Undercover’ in Hijab: Unveiling One Month Later.” Although arguably misguided, her article is at least thoughtful and sympathetic, if not a bit condescending, and adds to the discussion. The problem is that Herrington fails to realize the headscarf that she thinks she needs “to identify with Muslims” cannot capture the entirety of an individual’s life experience with her faith. Not all Muslim women wear hijabs — for example, my