2020: The Niqab Revisited
The pandemic has given rise to a new wave of interest in niqab wearing, a practice at the center of a string of public controversies. While it has previously been dissected from various cultural and…
Anna Piela is a visiting scholar of gender and religion at Northwestern University. She has written about Muslim women's activism in online settings. She has published in the Journal of American Academy of Religion, The Muslim World, and New Media and Society. Her current research involves research with women who wear the niqab in the UK and the US. Her new book, Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US, will be published in February 2021 by Bloomsbury Academic. Her personal website is www.annapiela.com and she is on Twitter @annapiela999.
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