Date of source: Monday, June 19, 2006
Interview with
controversial writer and feminist Nawāl al-
Sa‘dāwī.
Date of source: Monday, June 19, 2006
The West’s double standards on freedoms have given the issue of the hijāb a political dimension, well-known Egyptian writer and feminist, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī argues.
Date of source: Thursday, May 25, 2006
Well-known
Egyptian feminist writer, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī and her daughter,
Muna Hilmi,
otherwise known as Muna Nawal Hilmī,
have sparked heated controversy over their
recent
statements,
in which they argued that a child should take his/her mother’s name,
thus
contradicting Islamic shari‘a...
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Hamada Husayn reviews Dr. Nawāl al-
Sa‘dāwī statements in
an interview with al-‘Arabīya
Channel, in which she talked about the idea of
giving a child the surname of his/her mother.
Date of source: Sunday, September 4, 2005
Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī, an Egyptian physician, writer, feminist, sociologist and activist, has always had controversial perspectives on women’s issues.
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2005
Embattled Egyptian women’s rights activist Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī launched her campaign at the Dutch parliament in The Hague amidst a crowd of journalists and reporters.
Date of source: Saturday, December 11, 2004
“Al-Riwaya” [The Novel] was a very wily title for embattled writer Nawal Al-Saadawi’s recent book, which arouses curiosity and whets appetite for people to read.
Date of source: Monday, January 7, 2002
The sixth international conference of the Association of the Solidarity of Arabic Women showed a scientific film about the circumcision operations of male babies. The film warned against the dangerous medical and psychological consequences of circumcising males while being still babies. Dr. Nawal...
Date of source: Saturday, May 7, 2005
The feminist movement in Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Morocco does not give up requesting women’s rights.
The number of national councils, non-governmental organizations and feminist associations is growing.
Date of source: Saturday, June 12, 2004
The conservatives and the religious authorities in Qum in Iran are putting all their hopes on the Council for Maintaining the Constitution, whose membership includes eminent Shi’ite references. These Shi’ite references would stand up against reformers’ attack on the Shi’a fiqh or the constants of...