a loose-fitting garment that looks somewhat like an abaya. According to some historians, upper-class nomadic women in Saudi Arabia were the first to adopt the abaya in the desert with scarves to cover ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ have adopted the abaya robe favoured ...

Although Saudi Arabian clothing codes have loosened, modesty is still encouraged. Abayas, which are loose-fitting black robes, were originally required for women, but tourists are no longer ...

So young women are instead following fashions seen in many Gulf nations. Many prefer a flowing abaya robe ... well -- sometimes a medical mask, or a Saudi-style cloth niqab veil that exposes ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.