Islamic fashion show celebrates modesty, highlights designers’ creativity

To stay COVID-safe the show didn’t use a traditional runway this year. Instead, models pre-shot their looks at an Airbnb in Atlanta, and attendees watched the show via Zoom. Some people even held watch parties.

Within seconds of the show starting, the chatroom was filled with praise. “Mashallah,” wrote one viewer, an Arabic phrase meaning, “what God has willed happened.”

“This is an arena where I am able to see myself and be comfortable in my Africaness and express myself in a modest way,” said Rahima Shaban, the designer behind the brand Beautiful Jamila.

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Atlanta-based designer Wahida Latif taking part in the 35th annual Seal Nectar Fashion Show with designs from her brand called, Madambutterfly.

Credit: Summitted by: Sirdified Photography

Credit: Summitted by: Sirdified Photography

Although modest clothing is common in Islamic traditions, Muslim women don’t all wear the same style clothing.

Everything from the colors a woman wears, the fabrics she chooses and how she styles her hijab is reflective of a person’s cultural and ethnic background.

Although images of modest styles worn by women in Middle Eastern, South Asian and North African countries are predominantly portrayed in the media, Black American women have a style of their own.

“We were often found imitating other people’s cultures, such as Pakistani, Arab and Indian; so much to the extent that many African American Muslim women didn’t understand the importance or feel the need to support ‘their own,’” said designer Melanie Austin of Shukuru Couture, who has participated in prior shows.

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Styles from the brand Sanriq Styles by Anju Tariq were shown during the 35th annual Sealed Nectar Fashion Show.

Credit: Summitted by: Sirdified Photography

Credit: Summitted by: Sirdified Photography

Designers who took part in the Sealed Nectar Fashion Show said they want to empower Muslim women through clothing, and allow them an outlet to express themselves through the clothes they choose to wear.

During the show, Anju Tariq, the designer behind Sanriq Styles, addressed this point directly, telling viewers she wants women wearing her line to “make people see we’re liberated.”

Muslim women around the world have being fighting for the freedom to wear clothing of their choosing for decades. In December the Pew Research Center found Muslim women in 56 countries, including the United States, say they’ve experienced hostility due to the way they choose to dress.

Earlier this summer, the European Union’s highest court ruled that employers can suspend Muslim employees for wearing headscarves. And in the United States the American Civil Liberties Union says Muslim women can face discrimination when it comes to their decision to dress modestly, and provides examples of women being denied jobs or being fired because they refuse to remove their headscarves.

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Queens’ Creations by Nefertari Hazziez was one of five modest fashion collections shown during the 35th annual Sealed Nectar Fashion Show.

Credit: Summitted by: Sirdified Photography

Credit: Summitted by: Sirdified Photography

Despite some negativity towards their fashion choices, new clothing and shopping are opening up for Muslim women who prefer to sport modest styles.

For Nefertari Hazziez, the designer behind Queens’ Creations, modesty fashion is all about empowerment and allowing women to feel confident and comfortable in clothing that they choose to wear. She believes the Sealed Nectar Fashion Show allows Muslim women to be seen and valued.

“It’s almost gonna make me have tears, but (the show is) the foundation of my becoming a fashion designer,” Hazziez said. “Muslims in America, we’ve always had the fashion flair but we just weren’t known for that. So I think that one of the differences is that we are being shown more and we’re being seen more.”

Paradise Afshar is a Report for America corps member covering metro Atlanta’s immigrant communities.

Designers features in this year’s Sealed Nectar Fashion Show:

Queens’ Creations by Nefertari Hazziez

Aya Donna by Adiellah Bates

Orchid Allure by Nisa Muhammad

Madam Butterfly by Wahida Latif

Sanriq Styles by Anju Tariq

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A two-day vaccination event in June at tortilla producer Olé Mexican Foods in Norcross netted 250 new vaccinations, organizers reported."},{"_id":"AON57WK4O5CNFOPJKIP6C23E4A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626456076853},"type":"text","content":"The goal, advocates say, is to make both vaccinations and culturally competent information about vaccines available in the places that immigrants already frequent. That’s a strategy that, according to health experts, should define this current, toughest phase of the state’s flagging vaccination campaign."},{"_id":"FDWABL4ICNAABJF3QLOH3VC6H4","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"37UVQ3BAG5A2BK2GBD5OF2TQJQ"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"COVID-19 surge looms in Georgia","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-surge-looms-in-georgia/EVY2UJI3SVHXXKDEOGUC74HDDM/"},{"_id":"WOTFOZVLZZF4RPH3ZUBX2MMAMM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626456076854},"type":"text","content":"“We need to make it so easy to get the shots that people have no excuse for being unvaccinated,” said Dr. Laila Eugenia Woc-Colburn, an infectious disease specialist at Emory University Hospital, and an immigrant from Guatemala. “The more we remove the accessibility barrier, the more vaccines we will be able to give out.”"},{"_id":"ZRLOGBE23ZAYPCJZAWZZDFOAK4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626456076855},"type":"text","content":"Genesis Castro helps coordinate the Latino Community Fund’s COVID-19 response. 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It’s a trend that holds up across different places of origin, from Central and South Americans to Europeans and Asians, who make up about 4% of Georgia’s population, but over 6.5 percent of the state’s vaccine recipients (”There isn’t too big of a push to get Asian Americans vaccinated because most of them have already done it,” said Xavier Kim, managing director of the Asian American Resource Center). Instead of falling behind in the vaccination campaign, immigrants might be inching ahead."},{"level":4,"_id":"X3OADLUB25EIVPNWWYVOH4MB2E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077931},"type":"header","content":"‘You just need to be here’"},{"_id":"NLDDQ7OKTVATFOI5YFC6TF7FWI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626456076862},"type":"text","content":"In May, the Latino Community Fund, in partnership with the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, compiled a report with tips on how best to promote vaccination events to immigrant communities. The report recommends avoiding phrases like “vaccination event for immigrants” (the word “immigrants,” it is noted, can “raise a flag”). Campaigns targeting people from Latin America should also refrain from using words like “Latinx” — which Spanish-speakers do not use — and opt instead for language like “evento de vacunación para la comunidad,” or “vaccination event for the community.”"},{"_id":"QO26MRZW2ZHEBLVEHMJ6Q3LVEE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626456076865},"type":"text","content":"“If you are trying to target immigrants, you need to speak to them in a way that makes sense for them,” Castro said."},{"_id":"BB4WTEAGE5HHPNIQZN4DXDZUZE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626456076866},"type":"text","content":"Both CORE and the Latino Community Fund say it’s necessary to repeatedly stress that vaccines are free, and that proof of insurance isn’t required. Confusion on those points has been cited as a reason keeping many from getting the shot."},{"_id":"TWQWLMIUSFDOVC64P3CTR2VDFY","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"UTWEE3OX6JEG7OSBG2VIMFNW64"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"COVID vaccine efforts in immigrant communities include debunking rumors","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/covid-vaccine-efforts-in-immigrant-communities-include-debunking-rumors/KF4F362UD5G6ZBKP2FXWCUX3IA/"},{"_id":"QGLBBOF46ZEWNFPBDEAA7Z2JFM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626456076867},"type":"text","content":"Information inside vaccination sites, advocates say, should also come in different languages."},{"_id":"32PBEVFZ2VEQPOF6TDKEP4FHYQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077938},"type":"text","content":"For Vanesa Sarazua, founder and executive director of Hispanic Alliance Georgia, a nonprofit based in Gainesville that has been organizing vaccine clinics, the most important action to take is to repeatedly reassure immigrant communities that IDs aren’t required to get the shot."},{"_id":"NXFLD2P3CFCS3AWI57I6TASUJQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077940},"type":"text","content":"“I know that when some immigrants come and they get asked for an ID, they can get nervous,” said Frida Garcia, a site leader with CORE, at a vaccination clinic at the Latin American Association in June."},{"_id":"UZKOQHWNY5FOXFIOW27WON5O2I","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077941},"type":"text","content":"At that clinic, attendees who could not, or did not want to, present IDs were given the option of writing down their full name and dates of birth on purple sticky notes."},{"_id":"UZ43ZWLWSRH4ZE5WKSIFLGPLTE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077942},"type":"text","content":"“You don’t need any ID. 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In cooperation with CORE and the DeKalb County Board of Health, the IRC has helped give out over 7,000 doses since then. At the helm of the IRC’s COVID response is Dr. Omar Aziz, from Iraq, who leads a team of 20 associates, all from immigrant backgrounds."},{"_id":"CBM4E4RXIJD43IA4PU2X4OJLG4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077967},"type":"text","content":"Those running the IRC’s vaccine operation “represent the community they are serving,” IRC spokesperson Fiona Freeman wrote in an email. “Sometimes, our team members would leave their apartment and walk to work at our mobile site in the same apartment complex.”"},{"_id":"LAF2LVCFGZDSDMNR4XQE3VJGDI","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"GDOBJNJCZRFKDEAT5OPQMDONHA"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"COVID-19 vaccine in metro Atlanta: Everything you need to know","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-in-metro-atlanta-everything-you-need-to-know/MK3PERSZORAGFHERWL27DREJVE/"},{"_id":"5T4NGODW5ZB7TONCFQ4JUMGIQI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077946},"type":"text","content":"Consistency is the cornerstone of the Mexican Consulate’s vaccination clinic, which operates every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday out of its “ventanilla de salud,” or “health counter.”"},{"_id":"RBSZVPFB4RETTLGRJHW2AR7PHU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077947},"type":"text","content":"Since March, nearly 5,000 people had been vaccinated at the consulate, according to Dianne Roman, the ventanilla’s coordinator."},{"_id":"3LXFOFU7VZGZJFNX2VLAFZXXXU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077948},"type":"text","content":"“Here at the consulate, we take advantage of the fact that there are many people coming here to get their passports, their documents,” said Roman. “I also go up to people and sit down with them one-on-one. ‘Tell me, what are your questions about the vaccine? 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Among them, the three-person team speaks Burmese, Tigrinya, Amharic, Nepali and Hindi."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"caption":"The Prevention Research Center (PRC) at Georgia State University has received a one-year, $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to identify behaviors and solutions to increase COVID-19 vaccine confidence and uptake in the African American and refugee, immigrant and migrant (RIM) community in Clarkston, Ga.nnClarkston, in DeKalb County, is one of the largest refugee resettlement communities in the country, with thousands of refugees having resettled there and in surrounding communities over the past two decades.nnThe project aims to train and deploy “community navigators” representing the various cultural groups living in Clarkston, including the Burmese, Congolese, Afghan, Somali, Middle East and African American communities. 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Community navigators will hail from the Burmese, Congolese, Afghan, Somali, Middle East and African American communities, and will be engaged in vaccine outreach at least through May 2022."},{"_id":"Q3ZISYLR35DZNDNCNSL5WUA4CA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077969},"type":"text","content":"Navigators will be trained to “be respectful,” said Dr. Michael Eriksen, Regents’ Professor in Georgia State’s School of Public Health. “Not in any way demand that people get vaccinated, but simply reassure them that the vaccine is the right thing to do.”"},{"_id":"QZHMDZUWNFHXZJMKUGJFY25N4Y","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1626779077974},"type":"text","content":"He added: “We are really looking at this quite urgently. Just this week, the increase (in COVID cases in Georgia) has been startling. Time is of the essence.”"},{"_id":"CMPUVKTUAJEB5OME6CVKDQ26PU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":"TKSM6MPBUNGN7D7LMRL3MQ3FCI"},"type":"text","content":"Data Specialist Nick Thieme and AJC reporter Paradise Afshar contributed to this report."},{"_id":"SVS4MN4M2JDNVEM3ZXDLZZMH5Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627397976497},"type":"text","content":"Lautaro Grinspan is a Report for America corps member covering metro Atlanta’s immigrant communities."},{"_id":"DLRS73V2RNBANGB6EYIIQJ5BCA","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"GBGFU2BAM5EQFDFLLWXYXN642Q"},"type":"divider"},{"_id":"3C3WMM5CAJB6BKNHYUQY54EDME","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627667870220},"type":"text","content":"How we got the story"},{"_id":"K43UYA2JKRAOLGI6CWO7XY4A3E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627667870221},"type":"text","content":"An AJC analysis of vaccination rates in Georgia by census tract shows that there are strong links between the percentage of college-educated residents and residents over the age of 65. After accounting for these and other factors, the analysis found that a census tract with a foreign-born population of 20% will have a vaccination rate 7% higher than a census tract with a foreign-born population of 0%. Such a relationship may be specific to Georgia, however, given conflicting evidence from other states."},{"_id":"K43UYA2JKRAOLGI6CWO7XY4A3E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627667870222},"type":"text","content":"For the average Georgia census tract the foreign-born population of just under 9%, almost 35% have had one vaccine dose and almost 32% have had both doses."},{"_id":"5M2QMUJTXJA5ZORWMFNZVA4GGI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627667870223},"type":"text","content":"The AJC found these connections by using a particular kind of statistical model commonly used to analyze percentage data, like the percent of a census tract that has received a full dose of the COVID vaccine."},{"_id":"RJP3YILAMBB6JEY3LYSBWPYH3Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627667870224},"type":"text","content":"Beta regression, as this model is known, however, assumes that a variable’s effect is the same at all levels of that variable. 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He was later found dead from gunshot wounds."},{"_id":"6SJFRC542BHMBJOG2SFAPIJIAY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442114},"type":"text","content":"In July of 1946, Maceo Snipes, a Black World War II veteran, was mortally wounded by a white gunman after Snipes became the only Black person to vote in the Democratic gubernatorial primary election in Taylor County, Georgia. It happened at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was threatening violence against any blacks who would dare to do what Snipes did."},{"_id":"SDIXWAIZEZDNVK5L3EUBHQ647E","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442115},"type":"text","content":"Just days after Snipes was killed, two Black couples were gunned down by a white mob near Moore’s Ford Bridge about 50 miles east of Atlanta. The victims included George Dorsey, a World War II veteran who had been home for only nine months after serving in the Pacific for five years."},{"_id":"4F5JJUBPQNCAPMK6S35E7X25NI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442116},"type":"text","content":"Felix Hall is commemorated in the EJI’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which is dedicated to victims of American white supremacy. The memorial sits in Montgomery, Alabama, a short drive from where Hall lived in Millbrook."},{"_id":"5FLE2KQS6REDFGHCXJ2X7FXRT4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442117},"type":"text","content":"In 2016, The Washington Post published an extensive article about Hall’s lynching based on records gathered by the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. The Post followed up with a piece in May about a Black soldier, Pvt. Albert King, who was fatally shot by a white military policeman near Fort Benning in 1941, the same year Hall was lynched there. The policeman was found not guilty of manslaughter."},{"_id":"MZKIHY5DEJBGVEDJU4DVNK5OA4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442118},"type":"text","content":"The memorial Fort Benning is preparing to dedicate to Hall Tuesday refers to President Harry Truman’s 1948 order to desegregate the U.S. military and says the “U.S. Army remains focused on reflecting on the past, present and future to ensure every single soldier is afforded an opportunity to excel in supporting the army’s mission.”"},{"_id":"FN3S2E224ZEBNC3O7BB22KY5T4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442119},"type":"text","content":"Margaret Burnham, the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project’s founder and director, applauded Fort Benning’s move."},{"_id":"XJ6TV7TW5RFTVEX4IMOTNF4PBU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442120},"type":"text","content":"“It is an acknowledgment by the military that they didn’t do enough during World War II to protect African American soldiers,” she said. “It should represent not a coda but an opening for further investigations by the military itself into the cases of other African Americans who suffered as a result of the racism within the military at home and abroad.”"},{"_id":"WPQGMFHYHBHDBAASXMFSZLUWAM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627570442121},"type":"text","content":"U.S. Rep. 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Ward practiced dentistry for 25 years before becoming a math teacher, the Burlington County Times newspaper reported."},{"_id":"Z4DSB3LR5VAY3EYOOL2E25QGXY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302885},"type":"text","content":"“I try to do (for students) what worked for my dental practice patients,” Ward said in a Rutgers University profile in 2007. In teaching algebra, Ward said, he explained the math “in a calm, reassuring manner what was happening at each stage of the procedure.”"},{"_id":"GZAQWYQ56VCJ7AEMK5S4RCRC4Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1627579096980},"type":"text","content":"In mid-July, another golfer was killed by lightning, according to Pennsylvania investigators. Joseph Slivinski, 71, of Blakely, was struck around 1:30 p.m. on the Pine Hills Golf Course in Taylor, media outlets reported."},{"_id":"7XJP4VF75ZHOJLH627Y2UC3QKQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302886},"type":"text","content":"According to the CDC, around 85% of those killed by lightning are men. People aged 15–34 years account for about 41% of all lightning strike victims."},{"_id":"ZWVWXCICQ5HMBJG2EIKX62M6ZI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302887},"type":"text","content":"Fewer people have been killed by lightning so far this year, though there’s no obvious reason, meteorologists say."},{"_id":"VWJ6HTVSCFF6ZN3G3IZ7YK2ALY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302888},"type":"text","content":"It could be that there’s more public awareness about the dangers of lightning, or the technology advances, such as with cellphone weather apps, mean fewer people are caught off guard, Channel 2 meteorologist Brian Monahan said. Being prepared and understanding the dangers of lightning are keys to stay safe, experts advise."},{"_id":"3ZOZGY7RANC6RDNDGYD5MP4XAE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302889},"type":"text","content":"The Severe Weather Team 2 app can be downloaded online on wsbtv.com. Weather alerts are also available through the AJC news app, which can be downloaded at AJC.com."},{"_id":"JJMZA6BFVJCKPKQLJ73WVG4UOU","additional_properties":{"comments":[],"_id":"JWF7BBAMTNAUNMEBAFXCYICBXA"},"type":"divider"},{"_id":"3NBKWMQXKNAATCTT7OZUOZIRQA","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302891},"type":"text","content":"STAYING SAFE DURING LIGHTNING"},{"_id":"J2BTTBH3C5EKLOSWZA2QQQWVFU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302892},"type":"text","content":"1. If you hear thunder, lightning is close enough to strike you."},{"_id":"RAZLPPKBZVAL7PKIW2A7OCO72Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302893},"type":"text","content":"2. When you hear thunder, immediately move to safe shelter: a substantial building with electricity or plumbing or an enclosed, metal-topped vehicle with windows up."},{"_id":"I565DIHQGBCTNNZQZPSEZTD7DY","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302894},"type":"text","content":"3. Stay in a safe shelter at least 30 minutes after you hear the last sound of thunder."},{"_id":"HEXHVM7N4BDALL5QHDAM5SZILU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1624970302895},"type":"text","content":"4. If you’re inside, stay off electrical equipment that puts you in direct contact with electricity and stay away from windows and doors. 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