For 62 years, the women at St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church have worked 12-hour shifts in the days leading up to their annual fundraiser, a festival at which they sell homemade bulgur pilaf ...

As Taliban officials impose a dress code on female students, émigré Afghan designers are highlighting the rich diversity of women’s traditional attire * Designers, emigres showcase traditional ...

Armenian women are often held to an impossible and narrow standard of femininity based on outdated and patriarchal roots. We can’t be loud or exuberant, but we also can’t be too timid.

Afghan women on social media around the world began to speak out against Taliban rule and post images of themselves in their traditional ethnic clothing with the hashtag #donttouchmyclothes, an ...

The women will also have to adhere to Islamic dress code. The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan last month as U.S. troops withdrew from the nation after 20 years of war.

Two dozen middle-age women and a handful of 20- and 30-somethings crowded the basement kitchen of an Armenian church in Northwest Washington this week. Wearing white aprons while squeezed around ...