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Twenty years ago, a day dedicated to the hijab would have been unheard of. Without social media and pop culture to propel it into mainstream media, the headscarf was only seen as something your mum or aunty wore, a piece of cloth clumsily wrapped around our head to attend mosque or Arabic classes. Now, with the phenomenal rise of hijab-wearing influencers and almost daily headlines debating the hijab’s place in society, it has somehow become the norm, at least here in the UK. “For Muslim women, wearing the hijab embodies their faith and informs the way they move, speak and interact with others…