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Date of source: Monday, September 27, 1999
The National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate the so-called "Crimes of Honor" has made some strides in its bid to increase public awareness of the problem but is nowhere near where it should be.
Date of source: Sunday, September 26, 1999
The National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate the so-called "Crimes of Honor," said on Saturday it has collected around 8,000 signatures in the first month of the nationwide campaign calling for the cancellation of Article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code which gives those who kill in the...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Over the past decade, the lives of hundreds of Egyptians families were turned into nightmares when they lost all their savings in pyramid schemes. Disguising under the slogan of "Islam-oriented business", those companies swindled Egyptians at home or expatriates working in the wealthy Gulf Arab...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
[Letter to the editor ]
Thanks to the courageous work of human rights activists and the ordinary Jordanian citizen, who consciously and persistently have spoken out and condemned the horrible injustices inflicted upon women in our society, the campaign against " crimes of honor " in Jordan is...
Date of source: Sunday, September 19, 1999
His Majesty King Abdullah’s advisor on Islamic affairs called for amendments to the penal code which they believe encourages men to kill female relatives for involvement - real or suspected - in illicit relationships.
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 1999
An analysis of the city of Port Said, and Al-Sayyed Hussein Mahmoud Soliman, the 40-year-old clothes vendor who stirred up public resentment when he attacked President Hosni Mubarak’s motorcade during a visit on September 6 to Port Said last week. Soliman was hot dead by Mubarak’s bodyguards.
Date of source: Thursday, September 9, 1999 to Wednesday, September 15, 1999
It is often mentioned that Islam is a religion which establishes a complete code of serious morality. It wants its followers to maintain and operate that code in their own social life, so that their dealings and their ties are established on the basis of Islam. The seriousness of Islamic morality...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 7, 1999
The only people that I could ever imagine would have a vested interest in resisting the recent campaign to abolish reduced sentences for honor crimes in Jordan are, of course, the perpetrators who have already benefited from the reduced sentences and, naturally, their families. I never could...
Date of source: Sunday, September 5, 1999
A 19-year-old woman was reportedly killed by her brother on Saturday in North Marka for what the alleged killer stated was for reasons of "honor," officials said. The victim, Maysoon Mohammad, was reportedly shot by her brother Bassam, 30, at least 15 times from a machine gun on the stairs of...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
The number of divorces in Egypt is on the rise according to a Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) study reported in the Egyptian opposition daily Al Wafd. While there were 67,000 divorce cases filed in 1990, by 1997 that number had jumped to 71,000. Last year the number...
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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.