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Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2005
Television is witnessing the return of actresses who had decided to quit acting and wear the veil.
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005
An article by Ann Penketh, published in The Independent, describes the Egyptian middle class as embodied in the supremacy of hijāb, the authority of security, and the dominance of wine
Date of source: Saturday, July 16, 2005 to Friday, July 22, 2005
The author read the Administrative Court’s ruling permitting three presenters from the Alexandria television channel to appear on screen wearing hijāb [veil covering a woman’s hair]. The court’s judgment considered the decision taken by the Minister of Information a violation to the principle of "...
Date of source: Saturday, July 16, 2005 to Friday, July 22, 2005
The production and sales of hijāb clothes will definitely increase with the increase in numbers of veiled women. Having veiled presenters on screen will help the spread of the hijāb because presenters, from the social point of view, are trendsetters.
Date of source: Saturday, July 16, 2005 to Friday, July 22, 2005
After the court’s decision that some presenters could reappear on screen with hijāb [veil covering the woman’s hair], it is important to know the reasons why these presenters have chosen to wear the hijāb. Is it because of fashion? Were they influenced by certain ideas or by personal circumstances...
Date of source: Friday, July 15, 2005
The court’s judgment that presenters who wear the hijāb [veil covering a woman’s hair] would reappear on Alexandria television channel brought the Maspiro case concerning the hijāb back into the spotlight. Officials are now faced with a choice: will they accept having veiled presenters on screen or...
Date of source: Saturday, July 16, 2005
Al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī interviewed Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī and discussed some Islamic issues including the indispensability of the Hijāb in Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 6, 2005
The Alexandria Administrative Court ruled the cancellation of the decision of the former Minister of Information banning three presenters from appearing on TV with their veils on. [Similar news item was published by al-Wafd on July 6, 2005, p.1, al-Akhbār on July 6, 2005, p.18, al-Liwā’ al-Islāmī...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The Ministry of Information faces a quandary nowadays after the Administrative Court called off minister of Information Anas al-Fiqī’s decision to prevent three veiled anchorwomen to appear on the TV screen, and consequently, they were transferred to other posts such as preparing programs and...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
A French university council meets next October to discuss the hijāb issue inside colleges in the aftermath of a recent decision by the University of Paris X-Nanterre, one of the most famous in France, to have hijāb-wearing students inspected during exams.
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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.