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Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2005
65% of Turkish women wear hijāb despite it being banned in governmental institutions and universities.
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Muhammad Fatouh argues that money has tempted hijāb-wearing actresses back to the television screen, even though, 20 years ago, they considered acting harām [forbidden by Islam].
Date of source: Thursday, October 20, 2005
Natural disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes and famines are not God’s revenge on the people of the world, Grand Imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī said.
Date of source: Saturday, October 15, 2005 to Friday, October 21, 2005
Dr. Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī argues that Islam does not impose the niqāb on women.
Date of source: Sunday, October 9, 2005
‘Ādil Jindī states that Ramadān is a proponent of a theory that says Islam in the future will represent a bastion of resistance against Western hegemony, adding that the growing licentiousness in the West will eventually lead to the triumph of Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, October 1, 2005 to Friday, October 7, 2005
The hijāb is one of the best-known Muslim practices and the uncontested hallmark of Muslim women, which should prompt us to reconsider it on the grounds that it is a symbol of social identity and marks the women who wear it as belonging to a certain category.
Date of source: Friday, September 30, 2005
Veiled women now appear in Egyptian television commercials and music videos. This has provoked different reactions amongst different social classes.
Date of source: Sunday, October 31, 2004
By listening to Muhammad Mehdi Akef, the seventh guide of the Islamist organization founded in 1928 by Hassan Al-Banna, one has a feeling of dealing with a personality that is regarded as the "pope" of Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Sabrina Farouni, a Muslim Italian woman who lives in a small town near the Swiss border, was given a 100-dollar fine for going in public wearing a niqab [a veil that hides all of the head and face] that covers her face completely.
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 2004
Veiled broadcasters banned from appearance on the Egyptian television screen, demanded that Dr. Mamdouh Al-Beltagi, Minister of Information, cancel the ban thus allowing them to return to work.
Broadcasters also complained of prejudices suffered from Zeynab Sweidan, head of Television, who...
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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.