Several news outlets have covered recent news of a settlement between the New York City Transit Authority and the United…
New York Transit settles over headwear discrimination
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Veiled threats?
At the New York Times philosophy forum, The Stone, Martha Nussbaum asks how philosophical and legal scholarship can help us…
On Turkish laicism
In a somewhat surprising move, Turkey's Constitutional Court announced today in a very close vote its decision to not ban…
Beyond the headscarf
Last March, the Chief Public Prosecutor of Turkey's High Court of Appeals opened a closure case against the ruling Justice…
The headscarf and citizenship in Turkey
In Turkey, the headscarf is usually taken as an emblem of tradition and backwardness, and its removal from public life…
The headscarf controversy
The analysis of the headscarf controversy cannot simply be based on arguments of liberal politics. Rather, it has to be…
A headscarf affair, a women’s affair?
Women who are proponents of the headscarf distance themselves from secular models of feminist emancipation, but also seek autonomy from…
New freedoms in Turkey — for whom?
Turkey’s ban of the headscarf on university campuses -- rather than the headscarf itself -- has become a serious impediment…
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
In Turkey there is now a great deal of controversy about proposed revisions to the constitution that would include lifting…