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...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 22, 2004
The Saudi public was shocked by the release of a statement signed by more than 200 heavyweight Saudi scholars and intellectuals, known to belong to the kingdom’s moderate trend. The statement warned against what they called the “Western liberal perspective” on social life that grants women’s issues...
Date of source: Sunday, March 20, 2005
Al-Sa‘dāwī’s book banned by the Azhar
Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī does not separate between the words uttered by the characters in her new book al-Riwāya [The Novel] and the statements she gives to the press about demands for justice, in her own viewpoint, for women that the book seems like a social platform...
Date of source: Thursday, March 3, 2005
The political, social and intellectual emancipation of women is a prerequisite for any serious comprehensive political reform that would develop our own nation.
Date of source: Saturday, February 19, 2005
The feminist movement and the publishing center of women’s rights are suffering from a structural crisis with regards to their structure, dynamism, and efficiency.
By conducting a field survey of the publishing movement in Egypt, we can see that there are a number of reasons behind the poor...
Date of source: Thursday, May 10, 2001
Scholars and gynecologists commented on Nawal Al-Sa’adawi’s opinions on circumcision. Doctors said that stopping female circumcision may lead most of them to lesbianism. Scholars explained that Imam Abu Hanifa said that circumcision for men is Sunna and it is a noble deed for women. Imam Shafai...
Date of source: Monday, April 16, 2001
The Egyptian Center for Human Rights asked the legislative institutions to specify a certain number of seats in Parliament for women. At the same time, the Center called all political parties and all NGOs to activate women’s political participation.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 2, 2000
In its attempt to remove the obstructions to understanding, and to pave the way for boosting confidence and cooperation between the Arab world and the European union, the Center for Peace Researches in Spain has started to issue a series of studies about the roots of clashes between Islam and the...