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Date of source: Saturday, October 18, 2003 to Friday, October 24, 2003
The article comments on the issue of wearing the hijab in France and Iran. The author gives examples of Muslim women in France who insist on wearing the hijab, and of Iranian women who believe that the hijab is a sign of oppression.
Date of source: Saturday, October 18, 2003
Dr. Zaki Badawi, the advisor of Britain´s crown prince on Islamic issues, says that the hijab is not an obligation and that Muslims are responsible for the fact that westerners do not sympathize with the Palestinian issue. He comments on other aspects of the relation between Arabs and the West...
Date of source: Thursday, October 2, 2003
The article reports an interview by the French radio station “RTL” with the French Muslim Minister of State for Sustainable Development Affairs. She stated that she is against the wearing of hijabs [veil covering a woman´s hair] in state schools. The article presents also a short review...
Date of source: Friday, October 3, 2003
The German Supreme Constitutional Court released a verdict, despite dissenting differences among the eight judges, on the wearing of hegabs [veil covering a woman’s hair]. The court gave permission to a Muslim teacher to wear the veil while teaching in class.
Date of source: Monday, September 29, 2003
The author comments on the opposition of two Iranian women living in France towards the hijab, which has been imposed on all women in Iran after the Islamic revolution. The first wrote a book titled "Let the Veil Fail" and the second issued three picture books titled "Kings’ Land." The book and the...
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2003
The German Constitutional Court allowed Fereshta Ludin, a Muslim teacher, to wear the hijab [head cover] during working hours. The court added that local parliaments and not the ministries of Education or Justice are responsible to give future decisions about hijab issues. [Similar news is reported...
Date of source: Thursday, September 25, 2003
The article is an interview with Gabriela Linda, the head of the section for “Dialogue with the Islamic world” in the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She comments on the relations between Europe and Islam and dialogue between the two parties. She also comments on the issue of terrorism and the...
Date of source: Saturday, September 20, 2003 to Friday, September 26, 2003
M.A., a student at the Faculty of Commerce, went to the Faculty mosque for prayers and attending the weekly religious lesson given by another student. She was astonished to see that the student giving the lesson brought a shroud out of her bag, in order to give them a lesson in preparing the dead...
Date of source: Monday, September 15, 2003
The article is an overview of an article published in the French magazine Le Express about the Islam of the Egyptian high class. The magazine comments that the life of this class is scattered between the West and Arab culture and that this class cannot specify its direction in the light of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 26, 2003
The writer presents a brief background on the status of Muslims in Austria from 1912 until today.
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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.