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Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Dr. Muna
Hilmī expresses her astonishment at the reaction to her initiative to give the child the
surname of his/her
mother, besides the father’s name, and comments on some of these opinions.
Date of source: Saturday, March 18, 2006
The news carries statements by the imām of the Azhar in which he criticized a newly-proposed bill on personal status matters.
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: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Women, in the eyes of Islam, are not men’s adversaries, but rather they are complementary to men just like men are complementary to women. Accordingly, it is not acceptable by any means to have women’s rights gnawed at in favor of men.
Date of source: Saturday, May 11, 2002 to Friday, May 17, 2002
The sexual misconduct of some Catholic priests brought to the surface the issue of marriage and celibacy in Christianity. St. Paul advocated celibacy and virginity because of his belief in the coming of Jesus Christ, which needs man to be free from this world. It was also believed that sex keeps...
Date of source: Friday, January 11, 2002
The author comments on an article published in Al-Akhbar under the title “The Story of an Unknown Woman.” Al-Akhbar´s article claim that Egyptian women are living exactly as the Afghan women lived. The author refutes this claim and concluded that no comparison can be held between the freedom...
Date of source: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A discussion of homosexuality and Egyptian law taken from a bachelor’s thesis on Egyptian law.
Date of source: Saturday, October 2, 2004
Noah, Lot, Joseph, Jacob, Job, David, Solomon, Moses and Jesus are all messengers of God. So why then should we deny their followers and dub them as kufar [unbelievers] just because the vocabulary of their creeds differs from that of Islam?
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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.