There has been a wide political debate about a

judicial complaint calling for the confiscation of the book “Al-Hijab: Ro’ya ‘Assriya” [The

Headscarf: A Contemporary Perspective] by and the dismissal of the author and editor-in-chief of

Hawa [Eve] magazine Iqbal Baraka from her job.

The Committee of Freedoms of the

Journalists’ Syndicate] issued a statement yesterday that holds the signature of journalist

Muhammad Abdel Qudous, an eminent member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdel Qodous stressed the

“importance of arguing one excuse against another and one opinion against another, and rejecting

the confiscation of ideas.”