Date of source: Sunday, July 12, 2009
Egypt resorts to religion in order to confront sexual harassment.
Date of source: Sunday, July 5, 2009
al-Faris writes of the isolation of Copts in Society, the need for more churches, and the controversial 'Master Yacoub'.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Al-Dustūr published a two-page file on niqāb in Egypt. About 17 percent of Egyptian women wear niqāb. Authors of the files tried to point out the reasons behind the phenomenon.
Date of source: Sunday, May 10, 2009
The following lines present a review of the second part of the interview with Rev. Manīs ‘Abd al-Nūr, a prominent figure in the Evangelical Church in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, September 7, 2008
Sara Hassan goes undercover in the woman’s circle of Regent’s Park Mosque in London and discovers some shockingly extremist and Saudi ideology advocating killing homosexuals, adulterers, and apostolics, and separation from mainstream society, particularly for women. This is even more shocking...
Date of source: Saturday, March 14, 2009 to Friday, March 20, 2009
The author blames the muftī for permitting a fatwá to be issued about polygamy being permitted in Judaism and Christianity. He believes that such a subject should not be discussed in an atmosphere of sectarian troubles.
Date of source: Saturday, March 14, 2009 to Friday, March 20, 2009
Shaykh Mustafá Muhammad Rāshid says that although the hijāb or head coverings are not mentioned in the Qur’an, a group of scholars assert that they are not only compulsory, but the most important pillar of Islam.
Date of source: Saturday, March 14, 2009 to Friday, March 20, 2009
Muslim thinker Ahmad Shawqī al-Fanjarī argues that head coverings are not compulsory in Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, February 22, 2009
A bill concerning ‘urfī marriages that was proposed by the female Member of Parliament Ibtisām Habīb was opposed by another MP because she is a Christian.
Date of source: Sunday, September 28, 2008
Maria Graversen attended a seminar at AUC about female domestic workers in Egypt and reports on what she learnt.