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: Wednesday, June 29, 2005
‘Olā Jalāl, a correspondent of the Daily Star, the Herald Tribune’s supplement, was sexually harassed by security forces inside the South Cairo Court.
Date of source: Monday, July 4, 2005
Some 70 Members of Parliament reject a visit to be paid by the US Congress Freedom from Religious Persecution Committee, which they view as an attempt to interfere in domestic political affairs and have an impact on the public opinion trends within the period in which Egypt is preparing for the...
Date of source: Monday, June 27, 2005
Qataouta Shenouda Jayyid married to Nasr Nasr ‘Adwān, 12 years ago. After marriage she found out he was married to three other Christians and a Muslim woman wearing the niqāb.
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2005
Throughout their history, Muslims have never encountered what is now called women’s issues regarding work, political participation or any other aspect, neither during the age of Islamic glory, nor during the stages of weakness, said Mufti of the Republic ‘Alī Jumca in an interview
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2005
An Egyptian dā‘iya was sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment for writing a book deemed as a violation to the constitutional rights of women in Spain.
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.
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
“My veil is my identity,” a new book by Véronique Giro, a professor of Spanish and researcher Eve Santomir [The names are transliterated from Arabic, we have not found them on the internet, we are not certain of the spelling in the original language] that presents a new vision of the story of two...
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 2004
Dr. Ali Gom’a, the Grand Mufti of the Republic, said the Hejab [veil covering a woman’s hair] is obligatory for all girls as soon as they reach puberty. He added that such an opinion is based on the Qur’an and sunna [sayings or actions of the prophet.]
Date of source: Thursday, December 2, 2004
Ahmed Kamal Abu Al-Magd, a former Minister of Information and Youth and professor of public law at the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, said that he does not support the conspiracy theory trend but that he views a scheme that aims at marginalizing the Muslim world and brushing it aside from the...