Date of source: Saturday, November 16, 2024
The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC) in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan released its annual book on the world’s 500 most influential Muslims for 2024/25, with the Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyeb, ranked as 13th.
Date of source: Saturday, February 3, 2024
The Muslim Council of Elders booth at the Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) 2024 held its 15th cultural symposium under the title, ‘Women between Teachings of Islam and Inherited Traditions.’
Date of source: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Mufīda ʿAbd al-Raḥman, the renowned first Egyptian female lawyer, participated in the activities of the committee on personal status law amendments in late 1950s and contributed to enacting legislations regulating family-related affairs, including marriage and divorce.
Date of source: Monday, August 7, 2023
A post on social media revealed that the books and works of late writer Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī were put on sale at a bookshop, which sparked a controversy over the rights of her heirs: a son and a daughter.
Date of source: Friday, August 11, 2023
Al-Azhar’s Media Center announced the start of the second season of the international drawing and portraiture forum under the motto ‘Empowerment of Women’ on August 11-September 10, 2023 under the auspices of Grand Imām of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyīb.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 9, 2022
The Egyptian women aspire to participate in the national dialogue to speak up about their problems and their proposals to reform legislation, policies, and procedures that limit their freedoms and their access to resources and opportunities available in society. Moreover, they aim to focus on...
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 2021
Farahat ben Younes [Faraḥāt bin Yūnis] is General Inspector of Civic Education, President of the Association of the Civic Education, civil society activist and interested in issues of gender.
Date of source: Thursday, July 22, 2021
Women’s issues and gender disparities have recently come to light on the screens, as movies fearlessly deal with a variety of issues that previously were silenced. These issues are found amid society and deserve to be discussed, treated, and highlighted. The film “I want a divorce” [Urīd Khulʿān]...
Date of source: Friday, April 23, 2021
Imān Mirsāl, an Egyptian novelist and translator, won the Sheikh Zayed [Shaykh Zāyid] Book Award in the Literature category—granted by the United Arab Emirates—for her book, ‘In the Footsteps of Inayat El Zayat’ [Fī Athar ʿInāyāt al-Zayāt], published by Dār al-Kutub Khān in 2019. The results were...
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 2021
Dr. Aḥmad Karīma, Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence at al-Azhar University, said that gloating over the death of a person, regardless of their beliefs and opinions, is prohibited according to the Islamic Law [Sharia].