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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...
Date of source: Friday, December 3, 1999
In Italy, Court sentenced a Muslim Egyptian emigrant to two years in jail because he circumcised his daughter in one of the Delta villages during a visit to Egypt without the knowledge of his Italian, Catholic wife. In Britain, a court passed a judgment that a Muslim father does not have the right...
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 1999
There is a law prohibiting private lessons, to preserve social peace which is important and preserve the billions lost, which is more important. There is an obligation that young female students do not wear the higab [veil] without their guardians knowing about this. There is a recommendation to...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 1999
The debate that is raging in the country over crimes of honour, and the proposed amendment to article 340 of the Jordanian penal code is going in the wrong direction. Opponents of the proposed change in the law, specially parliamentarians, are missing the point.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Women activists along with a popular committee that led a nationwide campaign to demand the cancellation of Article 340 which grants leniency for killers in crimes of honour, said they will continue their drive to abolish the article despite Parliament’s decision on Sunday to shelve the law.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 17, 1999
Dr. Su’ad Saleh, professor at the women’s college for Islamic studies at the Azhar University said that she is the mufti of women and that Islam does not limit the work of the mufti to men only.
Date of source: Sunday, November 7, 1999
"Fundamentalist" elements are said to be behind recent assaults and intimidation of faculty members at Ma’an’s fledgling Hussein Ben Talal University, sources said on Saturday.
Date of source: Thursday, October 28, 1999
"Since you cannot convey reality precisely, since in the last resort there is no precise reality to convey, why worry? All that is expected of you is a good story, so let them have it. Truth? What is truth?" writes Edward Mortimer in "Islam and the Western journalist." And thus the Western press...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 19, 1999
Her Royal Highness Princess Basma spoke about discrimination against women at a conference where studies were presented about the rights, privileges and freedoms guaranteed to Muslim women in the Sharia.
Date of source: Monday, October 18, 1999
The article discusses female genital mutilation among Yemeni females. There is a wide difference between the actual teaching of Islam and what is externally practiced in various Islamic states by Muslims who have at time mixed up customs, traditions and secularism with Islamic teachings.
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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.