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Date of source: Saturday, April 8, 2000 to Friday, April 14, 2000
Last century, the calls for setting the woman free were repeated by various notable figures. But, this century we have a different call in which it states the lessening of the woman’s role. Sheikh Omar Abdel Kafi issued several fatwas concerning birth control. He believes that a boy is better than...
Date of source: Saturday, April 1, 2000 to Friday, April 7, 2000
The citizens of this region are exposed daily to different forms of torture and persecution with the intention of erasing their Islamic identity. There are several means to accomplish this. For instance, the people who attend the mosques are arrested. The government officials arrange terrorist acts...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 1999
The author is dismayed by the book "Women in the Developing World: Thoughts and Ideals" by Bangladeshi feminist writer Hasna Begum in which she claims that, according to Islamic concepts, woman was created for the pleasure of man implying that her life itself is of no value whatsoever, attacks...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
The unemployment rate and free time of women forced them to marry extremists and to perform an important, vital and tangible role to promote extremism. Extremist women live isolated from society and have created a system of solidarity among themselves. Extremist women have children and feed them...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
The debate that is raging in the country over crimes of honour, and the proposed amendment to article 340 of the Jordanian penal code is going in the wrong direction. Opponents of the proposed change in the law, specially parliamentarians, are missing the point.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Women activists along with a popular committee that led a nationwide campaign to demand the cancellation of Article 340 which grants leniency for killers in crimes of honour, said they will continue their drive to abolish the article despite Parliament’s decision on Sunday to shelve the law.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
"Since you cannot convey reality precisely, since in the last resort there is no precise reality to convey, why worry? All that is expected of you is a good story, so let them have it. Truth? What is truth?" writes Edward Mortimer in "Islam and the Western journalist." And thus the Western press...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 19, 1999
Her Royal Highness Princess Basma spoke about discrimination against women at a conference where studies were presented about the rights, privileges and freedoms guaranteed to Muslim women in the Sharia.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
After being booted out of Al Azhar Medical College 11 years ago due to undergoing a sex change operation, Sally Mohammed Abdallah might be returning to classes there despite the prestigious university’s condemnation of her operation.
Date of source: Thursday, October 14, 1999
While Egyptian women can be ministers, lawyers, doctors, and hold many other prestigious jobs, they are still shut out of the upper levels of the religious hierarchy. Now one female religious scholar wants to become a mufti which is a high level cleric charged with giving out religious opinions on...
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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.