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Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006
Muhammad Hilāl reports on the statements of Shaykh Dr. Muhammad Bashār ‘Arafāt on inter-cultural understanding.
Date of source: Saturday, March 12, 2005
In this article, the author explains that wearing a veil is not only a religious obligation for Muslim women, but is also an obligation for Christians and Jews. He lists different evidence from the Torah, gospels and the Qur’ān to prove his point.
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2006 to Friday, March 17, 2006
The author reviews the opinions of several intellectuals about the mysterious spread of niqāb-clad women in Egypt.
Date of source: Saturday, December 13, 2003
Islam encourages ethics and Islamic texts state that some non-Muslims are people of ethics. Some events show that Muslims are not the only people who have ethics. There are some non-Muslims whose behavior is more ethical than some people who claim that they are Muslims. The opposing attitude of...
Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2003 to Friday, December 12, 2003
A Christian young woman sent a letter to the magazine commenting on an article titled “The grounds of the veil and its battles,” published in the magazine’s latest issue. She objects to a sentence in the article reads: “the Christian veil symbolizes the authority of men over the women.” She says...
Date of source: Saturday, December 6, 2003 to Friday, December 12, 2003
The article is a letter to Rose Al-Youssef by a retired pilot. He comments on a program aired by Iqraa TV channel. The program interviewed a sheikh commenting on the issue of hijab. The sheikh stated that a woman told him once that she does not like to wear hijab. He answered her she does not need...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
There is no fashion that produces the amount of controversy, violence and hysteria world-wide that the wearing of the veil by Muslim women does. Iranian women flee overseas in order to take the chador off. In Turkey, the veiled wives of government and party officials are not allowed to attend...
Date of source: Sunday, November 30, 2003
The decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court to admit the right of Feritcha Luiden, a teacher, to take a scarf while doing her work and its statement that the German authorities were wrong when they ordered her suspension produced a wide-ranging debate and deep splits within German...
Date of source: Saturday, November 29, 2003 to Friday, December 5, 2003
A veiled TV broadcaster claimed that the head of Egyptian TV insulted and hit her because she wears the veil. The head of TV denied such claims and said that the broadcaster stirs up her veiled colleagues and harasses the rest. The head of Radio and Television Union made it clear that a broadcaster...
Date of source: Thursday, November 27, 2003
Khadeja Qenna, the Algerian broadcaster of the news bulletin and political programs on Al-Jazeera TV station, stressed that her decision to take the veil is a personal one and does not reflect an approach of her TV station. She mentioned that she received telephone calls from Sheikhs Amr Khaled,...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.