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Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
The Administrative Jurisdiction Court took a decision to cancel the decision of firing a student in one of the secondary schools for refusing to take off her niqab.
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: Wednesday, September 22, 1999
Reasons are given why some women wear the headscarf and sometimes even cover their face with the nigab and why others don’t do this.
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
A review of the book: "The Marriage Bed. Sexuality in Islam" by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba. Published in London by Saqi Books, 1998. In this book is one of the few attempts at dealing with the dimension of sexuality in the teachings of Islam and the way in which these teachings have become distorted by...
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...
Date of source: Saturday, September 4, 1999 to Friday, September 10, 1999
The Legal Research Committee of the Azhar issued a number of recommendations and decisions concerning the Urfi and Misaar marriages. The committee made it clear that such marriages are considered legal if a number of conditions, mentioned in the full text, are met.
Date of source: Wednesday, August 25, 1999
The Sunna deniers are lying about the Sunna by saying that it was not fair of Prophet Mohammed to say that the price of the dead woman is half the price of the dead man.
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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.