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Date of source: Sunday, April 28, 2002
Many contradictory fatwas concerning the legality of women carrying out martyrdom operations were issued. Some scholars believe that women are not allowed to explode themselves because the shameful parts of their bodies would be uncovered and also because they would not be accompanied by a mahram...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
An airline company fired an assistant pilot because she came to wear hijab. The assistant pilot filed a lawsuit against the company. She said that she would not neglect committing her duties toward God nor would she renounce her constitutional rights, as wearing hijab is not against the...
Date of source: Saturday, January 26, 2002 to Friday, February 1, 2002
Some of the retired actors preferred to stay in the artistic field by discussing issues related to how to produce morally decent acting and the necessity of producing Islamic artistic works. Others moved to the business field and came to be connected to some sheikhs such as Amr Khaled.
Date of source: Thursday, January 10, 2002
The Council on American Islamic Relations [(CAIR)] demanded that two well-known American airline agencies and officials at Baltimore-Washington International Airport apologize to a Muslim girl. Officials in the airport forced the Muslim girl to take off the hijab and terrified her when she refused...
Date of source: Friday, January 11, 2002
The author comments on an article published in Al-Akhbar under the title “The Story of an Unknown Woman.” Al-Akhbar´s article claim that Egyptian women are living exactly as the Afghan women lived. The author refutes this claim and concluded that no comparison can be held between the freedom...
Date of source: Saturday, February 25, 2006
Recent research findings on the increasing rate of melanoma among girls have raised controversy among Egyptian dermatologists and Muslim scholars, after claims by some Muslim preachers linked skin cancer to revealing clothes worn by young girls.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
In an interview with al-Sharq al-Awsat, Dutch member of the parliament of Moroccan origin, ‘Alī al-Azraq has blamed Dutch society for the emergence of extremist groups, arguing that Muhammad Buwīrī, murderer of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, is a pure Dutch product.
Date of source: Sunday, February 19, 2006
The author stresses some do’s and don’ts to young Muslim women who wear the hijāb.
Date of source: Monday, February 20, 2006
A review of articles in the Egyptian press on the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, examining the effect of the demonstrations across the Muslim world on Egypt’s tourist industry and suggestions that governments in Islamic countries have encouraged angry opposition to the cartoons to vent...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
The author is discussing whether the return of repentant actresses would be acceptable, since they had once considered acting and art as harām.
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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.