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Date of source: Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Cairo Personal Status Court deferred looking at the lawsuit started by Nabih Al-Wahsh, against Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi and her husband Dr. Sherif Hatata. The courtroom was filled with Egyptian intellectuals and foreigners who came to support Sa’adawi. The court listened to arguments from both sides....
Date of source: Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Next Monday the Personal Status Court will look at the lawsuit that aims to separate Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi from her husband. The lawyer who started the lawsuit accuses Sa’adawi of defaming religions and claims she has left Islam. In her opinion the lawsuit is not legal as the State Prosecution...
Date of source: Sunday, June 10, 2001
Cairo’s First Degree Personal Status Court will look, on June 18, at the lawsuit started by a lawyer against Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi and her husband. The accusation is that she announced opinions against Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, May 20, 2001
The separation of a husband and wife as a result of one of them leaving Islam is not directly based on the Qur’an or Mohammed’s tradition, but rather on jurisprudence conclusion that since the apostate is no longer a Muslim, and since a Muslim female cannot marry a non-Muslim male, they are to be...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
Nawal Al-Sa’adawi sent a letter to Rose El-Youssef to defend herself against the apostasy charges directed at her. She said that when she talked about going on pilgrimage and kissing the black stone, she spoke out of Sufi philosophy, which her father adopted and which gives priority to the core of...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Nawal Al-Sa’adawi recounted the story of the interview one of the independent newspapers ran with her. She said that her words were changed, wondering whether she was stupid to excite millions of Muslims by saying, at the time of pilgrimage, that pilgrimage is paganism. She stressed that she would...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 17, 2001
One of the newspapers ran an interview with Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi, in which she was asked her opinion about going on pilgrimage and other issues. The author argues against her opinions and claims that her knowledge of Islam is poor.
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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.