By Liz Schlemmer
N.C. State University student Aisha Mahmoud celebrates World Hijab Day each February by honoring the Muslim women in her life, who — like her — choose to practice hijab and wear headscarves and loose-fitting clothes in public.
“I texted my mom, my sister, my best friend and I was like, ‘You go girl,’” Mahmoud said. “‘Keep doing it, keep rocking it.’”
She first heard about the honorary day around the same time she started practicing hijab when she was about 13-years-old.
“Me and my friends, we would just try to raise awareness about what exactly the hijab means to us, via social media, via conversations with our friends,” Mahmoud said.
Her classmate and fellow hijabi Mariyah Modan says those conversations are important, because there are so many misconceptions about hijab.
