Hair days, 1 Feb 2027
World Hijab Day
A yearly day, begun in 2013, that invites women of every faith to try wearing a headscarf for a day.
World Hijab Day was launched in 2013 by Nazma Khan, a Bangladeshi-American living in New York, who wanted to answer the hostility she met for covering her hair. Each 1 February it invites women of any faith or none to wear a headscarf for a day and to learn why many Muslim women choose to cover. In 2021 the House of Representatives of the Philippines approved the date as a national hijab day. The day has critics, who argue that it overlooks women who are forced to cover, for example under compulsory hijab laws in Iran. Supporters answer that it is about free choice.

