Date of source: Saturday, March 22, 2008 to Friday, March 28, 2008
The author expresses her happiness with the National Council of Human Rights’ declaration that 2008 is the year of citizenship.
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2007 to Friday, July 20, 2007
In a response to a severe attack by Nājih...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
The recently announced introspections of the Jihād Islamic group revived discussions about the 10-year old revisions of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah. On the tenth birthday of the group’s inspections, Muntasir al-Zayyāt announced the establishment of a new political party. Al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah...
Date of source: Friday, March 2, 2007
The Islamic Research Academy, affiliated with the Azhar, recently brought charges of insulting heavenly religions and God against Egyptian feminist and writer, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī, who is now in Brussels and is planning to stay away for six months so she can teach at a number of U.S. universities.
Date of source: Monday, February 26, 2007
In the interview, Nawāl al-Sa‘dawī denies that she escaped from Egypt to Belgium and sought asylum in the U.S. out of fear. She expresses her contempt about the situation of men and women of letters in Egypt for they can not freely express their opinions.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Well-known
Egyptian feminist writer, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī and her daughter,
Muna Hilmi,
otherwise known as Muna Nawal Hilmī,
have sparked heated controversy over their
recent
statements,
in which they argued that a child should take his/her mother’s name,
thus
contradicting Islamic shari‘a...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Hamada Husayn reviews Dr. Nawāl al-
Sa‘dāwī statements in
an interview with al-‘Arabīya
Channel, in which she talked about the idea of
giving a child the surname of his/her mother.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Dr. Muna
Hilmī expresses her astonishment at the reaction to her initiative to give the child the
surname of his/her
mother, besides the father’s name, and comments on some of these opinions.
Date of source: Saturday, July 16, 2005 to Friday, July 22, 2005
The author read the Administrative Court’s ruling permitting three presenters from the Alexandria television channel to appear on screen wearing hijāb [veil covering a woman’s hair]. The court’s judgment considered the decision taken by the Minister of Information a violation to the principle of "...
Date of source: Saturday, December 14, 2002 to Friday, December 20, 2002
The author criticizes the fact that mosques use loudspeakers for preaching all the time. She believes that using loudspeakers is one of the results of the Islamist religious expansion and a form of religious fanaticism.