The study will be carried out at University of California, San-Francisco (UCSF), the lucky winner of the grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The new approach to treating genetic diseases that will be studied will include gene and stem cell therapy.
Hillary Clinton praised a fencer on the US Olympic team for being the first to wear a hijab. She tweeted a photo of her with this comment: âIn Rio, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first American Muslim athlete to compete while wearing a hijab.â.
Most Muslims who wear the covering call it a hijab (Ø­Ø¬Ø§Ø¨), an Arabic word meaning âcover.â However, there are various forms of hijab that are referred to by different names. While hijab is commonly associated with women, Muslim men also sometimes wear a head covering as a means of showing modesty. Additionally, Christian and Jewish women in some traditions wear a headscarf as a cultural practice or commitment to modesty or piety. Find out more about the History of the Hijab.