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Date of source: Thursday, August 24, 2000
A strange and negative thing about the Islamic culture in the Muslim world, is our need to discuss subjects while the Qur’an and Mohammed’s tradition have been telling us about the ideal community and about a Muslim woman’s political rights and political practices.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
Aqidaty had an interview with Dr. Gaber Asfour, the General Secretary of the Supreme Council for Culture. In this interview, he was asked about the criticized conference about women. In addition to this he received questions about creativity, Islamic literature and about the Qur`an being a...
Date of source: Sunday, July 16, 2000
Dr. Mohammed Said Tantawi, Sheikh of the Azhar, decreed that womb transplant is allowed as long the operation does not involve transplanting the womb to a woman who is related to the donor. Dr. Muhammed Bakr Isma’il, Chairman of the Department for Shari’a Law at the Azhar University, supports the...
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2000
In its attempt to remove the obstructions to understanding, and to pave the way for boosting confidence and cooperation between the Arab world and the European union, the Center for Peace Researches in Spain has started to issue a series of studies about the roots of clashes between Islam and the...
Date of source: Friday, February 18, 2000
When the extremist secular Farag Foda killed himself [this is the formulation of the author. Foda was murdered. See the comments of the RNSAW in the text], Sheikh Al-Sharawi - may God rest his soul - shouted: "Allahu Akbar! If I was to kill anybody, I would have killed this man..."
Date of source: Saturday, February 12, 2000 to Friday, February 18, 2000
Those who decided to attack culture issued a report for security bodies against a group of books published by the Supreme Council for Culture under the title ’The National Project for Translation’. The books that angered the issuer of the report are an integral group about women. They are...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 1999
Two controversial items in the draft of the new Personal Status Law are Al-Khul’a [a woman’s right to divorce her husband without explanation in exchange for renouncing all her marriage rights and returning the dowry he had given for her], and the right of a married Muslim woman to travel on her...
Date of source: Sunday, December 26, 1999
The author is dismayed by the book "Women in the Developing World: Thoughts and Ideals" by Bangladeshi feminist writer Hasna Begum in which she claims that, according to Islamic concepts, woman was created for the pleasure of man implying that her life itself is of no value whatsoever, attacks...
Date of source: Saturday, December 25, 1999
While there are many opposed to the inclusion in the draft of the new Personal Status law of the sections on Al-Khol’a [a wife’s right to a divorce in return for renouncing all her rights in the marriage], and a wife’s right to travel without her husband’s permission in certain circumstances, there...
Date of source: Saturday, December 4, 1999
The unemployment rate and free time of women forced them to marry extremists and to perform an important, vital and tangible role to promote extremism. Extremist women live isolated from society and have created a system of solidarity among themselves. Extremist women have children and feed them...
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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.