Topic: Health

How to look after your hair in the sun — whether you wear a hijab or not

From scalp care to preventing UV damage and dryness, here are tips to address your hair care needs over the summer months

Niloufar Haidari
How modest dressers can keep cool while working out this summer

Choose from a number of modest active wear brands or your own light and loose clothing, and make hydration a priority

Shahla Omar
‘A lot of these women fled war and trauma’: the community garden offering refugees a place to grow

The Appletree project in Wakefield acts as a vital green space for women, removing barriers to access and health inequality that might exist due to culture or religion

Weronika Strzyżyńska
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Yousra Samir Imran

Revealed: asylum seeker was stabbed 16 times in Home Office accommodation

Attack in 2023 followed alleged warnings about violent housemate, and is among cases where asylum seekers in ‘dispersal housing’ have come to harm
‘Unclear’ on Gaza but liked by local Muslims: the Hyphen guide to Andy Burnham

Here’s what we know about the Labour leadership hopeful and his positions on domestic and foreign affairs
‘One of the biggest sources of stress’: Muslim mothers on the social media ban for under-16s

From bringing exposure to Islamophobic content to poor mental health, many parents welcome the ban, but some say it is punishing kids instead of big tech
8 findings from major NHS maternity probe that Muslim families need to know

The National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, chaired by Labour peer Valerie Amos, assessed thousands of public responses to a call for evidence
Hero who confronted Huntingdon train attacker is still waiting for therapy

Raza Mustafa Aslam was stabbed as he protected passengers from a knifeman on an LNER train last year. His daughter is appealing to get him help
Life Support director Daniele Rugo: ‘You want to cancel me? We’ll continue speaking up’

Rugo’s documentary follows a group of British doctors who made repeated missions into Gaza’s hospitals, becoming ‘the sole international observers’ of the two years of Israel’s war