Tag Archives: Niqab ban

Egypt Today   The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court upheld Monday a lower court ruling banning Cairo University’s teaching staff from wearing niqab (full face veil) and rejected an appeal to overturn the ruling. A total number of 80 niqab wearing researchers at Cairo University filed an appeal against a previous …

Egypt Independent   A wide number of parliamentarians in Egypt’s House of Representatives rejected a draft law to ban wearing the niqab (face cover) in government institutions, submitted by MP Ghada Agamy to the General Committee of the Parliament for discussion. Common objections were that the ban violates public freedoms, …