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Date of source: Friday, June 3, 2005
The scenes of dancing veiled girls have lately increased on video clips and on TV. These offensive scenes have opened the debate on the veil and how it should be treated, and approached especially in media, which usually does not allow veiled TV presenters.
Date of source: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Based on two lawsuits filed against decisions made by the American University in Cairo and the judges clubs, Egyptian judges decided to re-examine two cases that sought to allow veiled women access to both places.
Date of source: Saturday, May 28, 2005
Muftī of the Republic Shaykh ‘Alī Jumca said that dialogue during a recent trip to Germany, which aimed at rectifying the image of Islam in the West, focused on the issues of gender equality, human rights and whether Islam is actually a religion of tolerance.
Date of source: Saturday, July 27, 2002
Rose El-Youssef’s special file for this week contains an interview with Abdullah Annas, a pioneering Arab Afghan and articles on new preachers, how terrorists have exploited cassette tapes to spread their ideas, the Prophet’s perception of terrorism, the Brotherhood’s perception of women, the issue...
Date of source: Saturday, June 29, 2002
Rose Al-Youssef continued its campaign against extremism in its special file this week. The articles of the file covered the prevalent culture in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world, the language extremists use in order to spread their misguided deceptive thoughts in society, the fact that some...
Date of source: Saturday, March 16, 2002
The latest fatwa of Sheikh Atiya Saqr that forbids shaking hands between men and women is a return to the dogmatic opinions that preceded the explosion of terrorism in Egypt. The author wondered how could Egypt fight terrorism without fighting such strange beliefs that create the atmosphere for the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Members of the radical group Al-Da’wa Wa Tabligh distribute pamphlets about actresses who repented among pilgrims. The author believes this to be a kind of trade. The article gives three of repentance stories mentioned in these pamphlets.
Date of source: Saturday, March 9, 2002
Sheikh Attiya Saqr issued a fatwa to the effect that shaking hands between men and women is haram [religiously forbidden], as men touches the hands of women with the aim of satisfying their desires. Some Azhar professors and Islamic thinkers believed the fatwa to be strange and extremist.
Date of source: Friday, January 25, 2002
The Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Waqfs of the Emirates organized a seminar about the niqab to discuss whether it is an Islamic obligation and whether Islam allows women to participate in the different public activities of life.
Date of source: Saturday, January 12, 2002
Dr. Mahmoud Salam Zanati compiled a study on wearing the hijab and the mixing and segregation of the two sexes in Arab society. He wrote that Arabs during the Jahiliya times and until the Ummayyid period didn’t know of sexual segregation. The obligation of the veil was only applied to the women of...
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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.