Women's running magazine features a woman wearing a hijab on its cover
 

Women's running magazine features a woman wearing a hijab on its cover
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For its October issue, Women's Running did something other U.S. fitness magazines have failed to do in the past: It put a Hijabi runner on its cover.*

Rahaf Khatib, founder of Run Like a Hijabi, posed for the cover as part of the magazine's feature story on women changing the sport.

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Khatib is a runner from Farmington Hills, Michigan who discovered a love for running in 2012, going on to compete in races in the Detroit area. She tells the magazine that when she **ticed a lack of Hijabis on the race course, she created her Instagram account to encourage other Muslim women who might feel self-conscious about running in a hijab.* Read more...

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