Hijab in Twitter: Advocates and Critics A Content Analysis of Hijab-Related Tweets Mohsen Yoosefi Nejad, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, and Maryam Mohammadi O ne of the disputed topics in Islamic countries is the hijab, a veil that covers the head and chest, which is sometimes worn by some Muslim women. This study reports how Twitter users regard the hijab. As part of our investigation we collected hijab-related tweets from between August 28 and September 3, 2015, using NodeXL. We programmatically detected tweet languages using Language Detection API and categorized contents into eleven topics. Ninety percent of all tweets were in Arabic, seven percent in Persian and three percent in Urdu. Anti-extremism and hijab advocates were the most frequently Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2018.2826071 Date of publication: 31 May 2018 46 1932-4529/18©2018IEEE IEEE TEchnology and SocIETy MagazInE ∕ JUNE 2018