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Date of source: Monday, March 29, 2004
The American University in Cairo (AUC) is expected to witness a confrontation after the decision of the administration to ban female students from wearing the niqab.
The university newspaper, the Caravan, reported on March 7 that the administration decided to suspend Yasmine Abel Raziq until she...
Date of source: Monday, March 29, 2004
In the story of the monaqaba woman and the preacher, Sawt Al-Umma, ran a side story about another monaqaba woman, who admitted to her mistake when the sheikh of the widows and divorcées deceived her. I received two messages, which I put in front of you.
1. A message from the friends of the second...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Scholars agree that what religion asks of women is to cover all their body except their face and hands. The dress women should wear should not be tight on their body and should not be transparent. This is the dress code that we all agree on today. The Qur’anic verses concerning women’s dress do not...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
The women preachers worked actively last week in the underground carriages to collect signatures of women to support a petition against commercials and video clips in which girls dance in a sensual way.
The woman preachers tell the women that they belong to Al-Amein Institute for Preparing...
Date of source: Monday, April 19, 2004
Muhammad Al-Baz has many stories about ladies who wear the niqab [veil covering the whole of a woman’s face or all except the eyes] and da’iyas [men who calls for Islam.] I agree with you, dear Al-Baz, that many people abuse religion, and I appreciate the efforts you exert in order to expose those...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 1, 2004
This article is a response to an article by Dr. Hussein Ahmad Amin, See AWR 2004, week 22, art.15]
The eminent writer Hussein Ahmad Amin confuses between the niqab [a veil that covers the whole body except the eyes] and the hijab [the headscarf]. The few women who wear the niqab take a stand from...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 8, 2004
The articles about the hijab and the niqab affair written by the intellectual Hussein Ahmad Amin, which were published in issues 214 and 215, elicited controversial reactions. The debate around the veil, as presented by Amin, is a scientific dialogue and should not be related to his personal views...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The hijab is not related to the issue of faith and is not an asl [foundation] of the religion. Forcing a certain type of veil on women or forcing women to abandon it [the veil] violates the human freedom to choose their way of life.
Date of source: Friday, June 18, 2004
The American University in Cairo has put a strange condition on its admissions application: Any girl who applies to AUC cannot wear the niqab and must accept all university policy. The application also requires the student or her parents to sign a vow that she will not wear anything that covers her...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Posters containing religious materials are covering all the walls, doors and even the administrative building of the Girls Faculty [ a faculty that accept female students only] affiliated to the Ain Shams University. The Faculty’s professors know very well that the students embrace extremist...
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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.