ISTANBUL, Turkey — Reha Muhtar, a popular Turkish writer, was vacationing on Turkey’s Aegean coast when he saw two young women, hair tucked under hoods, bodies cloaked in ankle-length outfits, diving ...

Nike introduced a new line of modest swimwear Tuesday and it has already created a lot of buzz. Muslim American women are weighing in and the modest swimwear is definitely making a splash, especially ...

SANTA CRUZ, California, March 23. THE following is an article submitted to SwimmingWorldMagazine.com from Julie Kimball and Tahrier Walid Sub Laban explaining the use of muslim swimwear by women at ...

LOS ANGELES — Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public. "At age 15, I started to cover, so I stopped ...

On the east coast of Africa lies the Zanzibar archipelago, where the locals greet you warmly with “Hakuna Matata,” the Swahili word for “no worries.” It’s a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania that ...

Stuyvesant High School has eliminated girls-only swimming classes, forcing female Muslim students to sacrifice the modesty their religion demands if they want to earn a prestigious diploma. Stuyvesant ...

A Swiss couple had no legal grounds for keeping their Muslim daughters out of mandatory swim classes with boys at their co-ed school, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. Aziz Osmanoglu and ...

A Muslim family must allow its teenage daughters to take part in their school’s mixed-sex swimming classes -- even though their parents object, the European Court for Human Rights ruled Tuesday, ...

BERLINBERLIN — A court in Germany has ruled that a Muslim girl cannot be excused from mixed-sex swimming lessons on the grounds of religious belief. The 13-year-old girl from Frankfurt had argued that ...

PARIS – A Muslim woman garbed in a head-to-toe swimsuit – dubbed a “burquini” – may have opened a new chapter in France’s tussle between religious practices and its stern secular code. Officials ...

GENEVA — A European court has rejected an appeal by a Turkish-born couple who were fined in Switzerland for keeping their daughters out of mixed-gender, mandatory public school swimming lessons for ...

A German court ruled on Wednesday that Muslim girls must take part in school swimming lessons with boys, in a landmark decision that touches on the sensitive relationship between religion and the ...