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Date of source: Sunday, May 1, 2016 to Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Article about a group of Westerners living in Siwa oasis.
Siwa Oasis lies on the fringes of the Republic; yet an unexpected community has made it their home.
Date of source: Friday, May 29, 2015
Hudā Badrān, the President of the General Council for Egyptian Women, condemned the campaign to disgrace women who do not wear the hijāb. The campaign is spreading over social media and is set to take place throughout Ramadan. Badrān criticized the campaign, saying that it contradicts the 2014...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Āmīnah Wadūd; an African-American woman who was raised as a Christian by her father, a Methodist minister, converted to Islam in 1972. Āmīnah Wadūd is widely known for her strong engagement in Islamic feminism and along with other Islamic feminists, Wadūd fights for women’s complete and equal...
Date of source: Sunday, May 8, 2016
Munā al-Tahtawī’s new book “Headscarves and Hymens” calls for a revolution in the Middle Eastern women’s mentality. The book begins with a discussion of the women’s body, asserting that the Middle Eastern woman is attacked by Arab culture and traditions which function as a prison to women not just...
Date of source: Monday, April 13, 2015
Expert in African affairs: Clarification that being a woman in Sudan is preferable to being a woman in Egypt
Dr. Amānī al-Tawīl has explained that the situation for women is much better in Sudan than in Egypt. The Sudanese Women’s Union was formed before Sudanese independence. The Muslim...
Date of source: Sunday, April 5, 2015
The Egyptian Feminist Union participates in the celebration “She Can”
The Egyptian Feminist Union will take part tomorrow in the “She Can” celebration, which was organized by the responsible of the Ashūkā Arab World Organization in the context of the celebrations for International Woman’s Day, at...
Date of source: Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Regional Center for Women’s Health in Alexandria opened an international conference under the name “Women’s Rights and Their Application.” The Conference will address a number of subjects related to women’s rights including healthcare as a right during pregnancy, early cancer detection, safe...
Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2011
A conference was held in Cairo on 10 April 2011 by the Coalition of Women's Organizations, a non-governmental group.
The purpose was to stress the importance of the role of women in democracy building.
At the conference Bothaina Kamel, a well-known TV host, stressed that a woman is capable of being...
Date of source: Monday, November 29, 2010
Du‘ā’ talks about the race for the quota of women’s seats in parliament, which she claims to be – like the whole elections – marred by accusations of violence, vote-buying, and fraud. She visited the female-only poll stations and talked to a few voters who made it clear they were not interested in...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
On October 11, 2009 Her Excellency Dr. Mrs. Jihān al-Sādāt presented a lecture to the Women’s Association of Cairo at the Oriental Hall of the American University of Cairo. During the lecture she highlighted the role of women’s rights and education as well as looking at her husband’s policies and...
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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.