hejab
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I told her you can’t take off my hejab and she said this is for your health,” the doctoral student explained.
From Salon
Like many people from Deir al-Zor, a conservative Sunni Muslim city on the banks of the Euphrates river, she dresses modestly and wears a headscarf, or hejab.
From Reuters
“I’ve been at war with the police over my hejab since I was 16,” she said.
From The Guardian
"But they should respect their hejab."
From BBC
Suleiman Hejab went to the gym with son Ali on Friday morning, but by that evening Ali lay dead in a Suez hospital.
From BBC
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