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ALBAWABA - Jordanian authorities arrested a man who was wearing women's clothes and wandering in the streets of the capital Amman. A video of a man wearing a Niqab and an Abaya in Jordan ignited wide ...

Fashion week in Paris, and after a display of pink and purple mini-dresses in an elegant apartment near the presidential palace, an assistant wheels out a rack bearing two very different creations: ...

The land-locked Saudi capital Riyadh has long been culturally conservative in comparison to other areas in the kingdom requiring its women to cover their faces with what it is known as niqab. But ...

KUWAIT CITY, June 23: Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have arrested a Kuwaiti for entering a hotel to meet his girlfriend, Al- Rai daily reported recently. A security source ...

The Dubai Police arrested a European for robbing a villa. He had worn an abaya (cloak worn by women) and niqab (face cover) to carry out the crime. On being alerted about the crime, the police rushed ...

The Dubai Police have arrested a man who donned a traditional Emirati abaya (full-length outer garment worn by women) and niqab (face cover) to steal Dh227,000. The police said the Asian was arrested ...

And now for something completely different, here’s a link to an article about how Parisian haute couture fashion designers regard the burqa and other Muslim garments designed to hide women from public ...

Woman had booked hotel room to meet him; both are being held pending investigation Both are Kuwaiti citizens, and the man admitted to disguising in women’s clothing, saying that “it was the only way ...

He was arrested before he could enter the metro station. A man who was caught wearing a woman's abaya, niqab and gloves at a Dubai Metro station has been fined Dh2,000 ($544). According to the ...

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