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Date of source: Monday, April 13, 2015
Expert in African affairs: Clarification that being a woman in Sudan is preferable to being a woman in Egypt
Dr. Amānī al-Tawīl has explained that the situation for women is much better in Sudan than in Egypt. The Sudanese Women’s Union was formed before Sudanese independence. The Muslim...
Date of source: Monday, April 6, 2015
Munīr Fakhrī ʿAbd al-Nūr Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade said that the Industrial Training Council is implementing projects to promote social and economic empowerment of women aiming at creating new prospects for Egyptian women.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Ambassador Talawā in Minya: Funds to finance projects for poor rural women
Ambassador Mirvat Talāwā president of the National Council for Women said during her visit to the province of Minya, that the Country is placing great interest and focus on Upper Egypt, an area that has long suffered from...
Date of source: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Head of the Women Union warns against jeopardizing women’ seats in elections
Hudā Badrān, head of the Women Union during the third community talk around the issue of the amendment of election laws, asked for immediate elections to be held as soon as possible. She confirmed her commitment to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Tallāwī signs a memorandum of understanding to protect women against violence
Ambassador Mirvat Tallāwī, General Coordinator for the Arab Women Organization, signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday with Muhammad al-Nāsrī, the representative for the UN for Women in Egypt. This memorandum...
Date of source: Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Regional Center for Women’s Health in Alexandria opened an international conference under the name “Women’s Rights and Their Application.” The Conference will address a number of subjects related to women’s rights including healthcare as a right during pregnancy, early cancer detection, safe...
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The identity of Muslim women in post-colonial Egypt has largely been marginalized in the transition to modernity.
Date of source: Sunday, July 29, 2012
I participated this week in a meeting to which I was invited by friend novelist Dr. 'Azzah Kāmil, Director of Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development Organization [ACT]. The meeting’s title was “Towards Effective Strategies for Combating Violence and Trafficking of Women and Girls”. Dr...
Date of source: Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo approved by majority during its annual meeting on Friday (January 20) on the ordaining of women as priests for the first time in the history of all Christian denomination in Egypt. ['Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 21, p. 3] Read original text in...
Date of source: Friday, August 19, 2011
Although Islamic thinker and presidential hopeful Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-'Awā approved the Azhar paper and stressed the need to activate it, he rejected that the Azhar or any other religious institution should play any political role.
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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.