Women's running magazine features a woman wearing a hijab on its cover
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.
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 noticed 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.
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Her passion for the sport has taken her to races around the world, from Paris to Berlin, and now she's become the first Muslim Hijabi runner to pose for a U.S. fitness magazine.
"For this stay-at-home mom of three, and an average (but persistent!) runner with goals, it means the world to me," Khatib told the publication in a behind-the-scenes look at her cover shoot. "It’s something I can show to my kids in the future, my community and most importantly my parents. It means that my sweat, tears and training are worth it."
Across the internet, people praised Khatib's cover:
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