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‘My hijab covers my mane, not my mind’, says academic

Dr Farhana Mia is at the boom again. They know her car. They see her staff card. Yet the guards at the university stop her from entering the institution she lectures at as head of her department.

In frustration, she shouts them, refusing to lift her niqab and demands to speak to their manager. They chuckle at her and let her through.

Mia is just one of many veiled Muslim academics who face degrees of discrimination at tertiary institutions

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