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Date of source: Thursday, January 27, 2005
In an interview with al-Maydān, the controversial Nawāl al-Sacdāwī reiterated some of her previously known views on polygamy, circumcision, as well as her plans to run for the Egyptian presidency.
Date of source: Monday, January 3, 2005
Human Rights Watch issued a document entitled: “Divorced from justice: Women’s unequal access to divorce in Egypt,” documenting serious human rights violations in biased Family Laws against women in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, December 14, 2001
The law of Khul’a is to be applied only on Muslims and non-Muslims who follow the same religion but not the same denomination. It cannot be applied on the non-Muslims who follow the same religion and the same denomination.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 29, 2001
A Christian orthodox husband filed a lawsuit asking for his marriage contract to be considered invalid as his orthodox wife had married him only one month after she was divorced from her first husband. This means that she married him before the end of the months of Edda [the period she needs to...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
Contradictory fatwas could be welcomed in rituals but not when matters are related to families and personal affairs. The fatwa accepting divorce only if it happens before two witnesses is contrasted by another one accepting the divorce once a man tells his wife "I divorce you." A man who has...
Date of source: Saturday, August 18, 2001 to Friday, August 24, 2001
The head of the Azhar fatwa committee issued a fatwa limiting divorce to the presence of a third party witness in order to reduce divorces which are becoming a threat to society. The fatwa contradicts all the Sunna heritage and is based on Shiite references.
Date of source: Sunday, July 1, 2001
During a Rotary meeting, Pope Shenouda refused to comment on the incidents caused by Al-Nabaa newspaper, explaining it was in the hands of justice now. He said that he trusted the court which would give everyone his right. He added that anyone can make mistakes but to insult the monastery that...
Date of source: Saturday, November 18, 2000
The Mufti of Egypt issued an official fatwa that allows the marriage of Al-Missyar*. By doing so, he contradicted the fatwa of Sheikh Gad Al-Haq Ali Gad Al-Haq, the late Sheikh of the Azhar, in which he said that Al-Missyar marriage is illegal and that it is like the mota’a marriage [for joy,...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 29, 2000
The incident began on November 17, 1998. G.K.B. filed a warning request against M.L.G. of applying to his rented Beit El-Ta’a [literally means, house of obedience. It is the husband’s house to which a woman, in a case of unlawful desertion, must return]. Based on that request, the defendant filed...
Date of source: Sunday, June 25, 2000
In an interview with Al-Arabi, Dr. Nasr Farid Wasel, the Mufti of Egypt gave his opinion concerning normalization with Israel, saying explicitly" I am against any co-operation with the enemy". He was also strong in urging for technological support in Muslim countries, in changing and developing...
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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.