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Date of source: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Dr. Muḥammad ʿAlī, an Islamic preacher, has said that God ordained that the decision to divorce is in the hands of the husband, whilst khulʿ is something that a woman may resort to if no other alternatives remain, and in this case khulʿ would be a way to leave the marriage.
Date of source: Sunday, March 5, 2023
Egyptians and historians have rejected the proposed change of St. Catherine's official name to that of “the Greatest manifestation” (al-Tajallī al-Aʿẓam). They emphasized that to do so is to erase the popular and Egyptian identity associated with this name by which the site has been known...
Date of source: Saturday, March 11, 2023
The Egyptian Minister for Justice, ʿOmar Marwān, has affirmed President al-Sīsī’s dedication to eliminating slow litigation processes and achieving justice, as well as his desire for the judicial sector to benefit from technological developments to improve the quality of its services. During an...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The final night of the mawlid (birthday) of al-Sayyida Zaynab was attended by large crowds at the mosque bearing her name in Cairo. The Ṣūfī orders taking part distributed food, drinks, and sweets to visitors, in addition to organizing dhikr circles and hymns. In recent years, people have been...
Date of source: Monday, February 13, 2023
Significant controversy was triggered by Maī ʿAbdullāh, a first-division student of the Faculty of Dentistry at Sinai University, after she posted through a leaflet on her personal account directing insults at the Prophet Muḥammad, and mocking heaven and the ḥijāb.
In her post, Maī said: “I believe...
Date of source: Sunday, February 12, 2023
Sinai University has summoned Maī ʿAbdullāh, a student in the first grade of the dentistry school, for investigation on charges of contempt of religion after she insulted the prophet Muḥammad and mocked the ḥijāb and heaven, among other things.
Date of source: Friday, March 10, 2023
A leading activist for women's issues has said that sharīʿa (i.e. Islamic law) should be given credit for the emancipation of women, and has further remarked that the Holy Qurʾān guaranteed their dignity and drew attention to their role in shaping societies.
Date of source: Monday, January 23, 2023
"The right person to challenge and break stereotypes" is how Sālī ʿĀzer, a 27-year-old Palestinian Jerusalemite, is usually described. Sālī became the first woman to be ordained as a priest at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land at a ceremony in Jerusalem's Old City that was...
Date of source: Thursday, December 15, 2022
On the morning of the 15th of December and within the framework of the draft legislation of the Personal Status Laws that was funded by the German Embassy, the Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance held a discussion entitled “Personal Status Laws: between Reality and Aspirations”. Those...
Date of source: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Dr. Māyā Morsī, President of the National Council for Women, met with Fr. Rabān Phīllips ʿIssā, a priest of the Syriac Church, to learn about the activities of the Council concerning women's empowerment and to discuss opportunities for the Church and the Council to cooperate with one another.
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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.