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Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2005
Changes in the selection criteria for AWR.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
A French university council meets next October to discuss the hijāb issue inside colleges in the aftermath of a recent decision by the University of Paris X-Nanterre, one of the most famous in France, to have hijāb-wearing students inspected during exams.
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 2004 to Friday, December 17, 2004
A recent news item said, “Spanish scientists unearth a 14-million-year-old fossil, which, they said, the ascendant of all primates and mankind according to Darwin’s evolution theory.”
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
“My veil is my identity,” a new book by Véronique Giro, a professor of Spanish and researcher Eve Santomir [The names are transliterated from Arabic, we have not found them on the internet, we are not certain of the spelling in the original language] that presents a new vision of the story of two...
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 2004
Dr. Ali Gom’a, the Grand Mufti of the Republic, said the Hejab [veil covering a woman’s hair] is obligatory for all girls as soon as they reach puberty. He added that such an opinion is based on the Qur’an and sunna [sayings or actions of the prophet.]
Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Iqbal Baraka, the editor-in-chief of the Hawaa magazine, bring us back in her book about hejab [veil covering women’s hair] to the very beginnings of the practice, saying, “The Assyrians in Iraq were the first to impose the hejab on women.”
Date of source: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
It is a television program called Muwagahat [confrontations] on Iqra’ satellite channel presented by Mr. Muhammad Barakat. In all episodes I watched, the host interviewed retired veiled actresses and looked up to them as if they were promised heaven.
- See art. 24: status of women in Islam.
Date of source: Wednesday, December 25, 2002
The article discusses the issue of the right of Coptic writers to raise an Islamic subject and vice versa. The issue surfaced after the article which Christian journalist Mofied Fawzy allegedly wrote about Sheikh Amr Khaled.
Date of source: Sunday, December 15, 2002
The Belgian Minister of Social Affairs was criticized for wearing a veil in an iftar celebration hosted by an Islamic feminine association. The minister wondered whether a politician would be attacked for visiting the Jewish community and wearing the Jewish cap. She added she would not have been...
Date of source: Monday, December 16, 2002
The headmistress of the Education Department in the Conservatoire Institution ordered primary and preparatory students to sing a song about the attributes of God in the morning line-up instead of the national anthem. Students´ parents, both Muslims and Christians, objected to what she did.
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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.