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

For its October issue, Women’s running did something that other American fitness magazines 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 report on women changing sport.

Khatib is a runner from Farmington Hills, Michigan who discovered a love for running in 2012 and later competed in Detroit-area races. She tells the magazine that when she noticed a lack of hijabis at the racetrack, she set up her Instagram account to encourage other Muslim women who might feel embarrassed to race in a hijab.

Her passion for the sport has taken her to races all over the world, from Paris to Berlin, and she has now become the first Hijabi Muslim runner to pose for an American fitness magazine.

“For this stay-at-home mom of three and an average (but persistent!) runner with goals, this means the world to me,” Khatib told the publication. in a behind-the-scenes look at his cover shoot. “It’s something I can show my kids in the future, my community and especially my parents. It means my sweat, my tears and my training are worth it.”

On the internet, people praised Khatib’s cover:

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