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Date of source: Friday, January 11, 2002
The former president of the court of appeal says that the claim that the Christian wife has the right to ask for khul´a if she changed her religious denomination has no true bases. Some Christian denominations allow divorce but no Christian denomination permits khul´a. Since this is the...
Date of source: Monday, February 27, 2006
A conference has discussed Egyptian women’s rights in the current Personal Status Law. The attendants demanded the amendment of some articles of the aforementioned laws, guaranteeing the rights of women and children.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Today, many unqualified sheikhs are issuing fatwas [Muslim religious opinions or decrees given by a Mufti or another Muslim scholar. Based on Islamic Law and logical measurement] for purely personal purposes. They sometimes even issue contradictory fatwas that really reflect their deep ignorance.
Date of source: Monday, July 19, 2004
This story is one of the most dreadful I have ever encountered in my entire life. It is the story of a young wife who is awaiting the final decision in her wretched case of Khula’, after being severely tortured by her husband, the imam and preacher of a mosque in one of Cairo’s high-class districts...
Date of source: Saturday, August 24, 2002
The Azhar Scholars’ Front tries to put an end to the many conflicts between the Sheikh of the Azhar and the former general secretary of the Azhar Scholars’ Front who is sentenced to a year imprisonment on the charge of defaming the Sheikh of the Azhar.
Date of source: Monday, August 2, 2004
A new Shiite community has been added to the Egyptian population. They number 20,000
or even 30,000 or 40,000 and most of the community members are of marriageable age and are
capable of marriage, having families, and enlarging the community. The Shiites are not only a
demographic segment but...
Date of source: Saturday, August 21, 2004 to Saturday, August 28, 2004
The Islamic Research Institute issued
a decision to ban the book “The responsibility for the failure of the Islamic State in the modern
era,” written by Gamal Al-Banna. The book was published ten years ago but was recently sent by
the police station of Kafr Al-Sheikh to the institute to review...
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
The Ibn Khaldoun Center opened its doors for the thinker Gamal Al-Banna, the author of the
book Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil asr Al-hadith [The responsibility of the failure
of the Islamic State in the modern era], whose banning was recommended by the Islamic Research
Institute....
Date of source: Monday, September 13, 2004
Ten years after the publishing of Al-Banna’s book Mas’ouleyit fashal al-dawla al-Islamiya fil
asr Al-hadith [The responsibility of the failure of the Islamic State in the modern era], the
Azhar recommended the banning of the book because of the unorthodox ideas included in the book. A
heated...
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
Some 240 homes in Egypt meet
their waterloo on a daily basis as women get their divorce rulings in courts every six minutes while five million women are
not aware they are divorced, according to the figures of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
(CAPMAS).
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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.