“I actually only started wearing the hijab one year ago,” said Shehadeh, an undergraduate studying math and economics at Fordham University in New York.”I always wanted to, but I wasn’t ready. It was actually during Ramadan last year, one week before Eid that I had this feeling to wear the hijab.”
Shehadeh, a Palestinian-American, was with her two sisters, Shireen, 26, and Nisrien, 18, an…
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