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Date of source: Sunday, March 20, 2005
Al-Sa‘dāwī’s book banned by the Azhar
Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī does not separate between the words uttered by the characters in her new book al-Riwāya [The Novel] and the statements she gives to the press about demands for justice, in her own viewpoint, for women that the book seems like a social platform...
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
The political, social and intellectual emancipation of women is a prerequisite for any serious comprehensive political reform that would develop our own nation.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2005
The feminist movement and the publishing center of women’s rights are suffering from a structural crisis with regards to their structure, dynamism, and efficiency.
By conducting a field survey of the publishing movement in Egypt, we can see that there are a number of reasons behind the poor...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2001
Scholars and gynecologists commented on Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s opinions on circumcision. Doctors said that stopping female circumcision may lead most of them to lesbianism. Scholars explained that Imam Abu Hanifa said that circumcision for men is Sunna and it is a noble deed for women. Imam Shafai...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
The Egyptian Center for Human Rights asked the legislative institutions to specify a certain number of seats in Parliament for women. At the same time, the Center called all political parties and all NGOs to activate women’s political participation.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2000
In its attempt to remove the obstructions to understanding, and to pave the way for boosting confidence and cooperation between the Arab world and the European union, the Center for Peace Researches in Spain has started to issue a series of studies about the roots of clashes between Islam and the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2000 to Friday, January 28, 2000
Proper logic says that it is foolish for people to fight each other because some of them have black eyes and are short while the others are not. The same logic judges that it is also foolish for people to fight each other for nothing except that some of them inherited Islam and others Christianity...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
The number of divorces in Egypt is on the rise according to a Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) study reported in the Egyptian opposition daily Al Wafd. While there were 67,000 divorce cases filed in 1990, by 1997 that number had jumped to 71,000. Last year the number...
Date of source: Friday, August 31, 2012
The Ministry of Social Affairs had closed the feminist association that was headed by Dr. Nawal Al-Sadawi in 1991. She has come back in order to establish an Egyptian feminist league in Egypt but the minister declared she had not approved it.
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
"Power to Change" was the theme of the World YWCA’s 29th council in Cairo. Throughout the conference, Egypt was acknowledged as an excellent example of co-operation between Muslims and Christians by encouraging to work together in all fields of voluntary work.
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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.