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A conference on the freedom of expression was lately held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in cooperation with both the Reform Forum, affiliated with the Bibliotheca, and representatives of freedom of expression from Norway. The conference reviewed Arab and Norwegian reports about the statuses of...
Holding the conference on freedom of expression at the same time of the second annual conference of the National Democratic Party is a mere coincidence. The difference between the official view of reformation and what the Arab intellectuals aim at, is clear. Each view seems as if it is related...
Dr. Moussa Hawamda, a Jordanian poet, has become very famous in the last five years after the recent campaign against his collection of poems My Trees Are Higher issued in fall 1999. Moussa Hawamda who was brought before the Jordanian court five years ago and then sentenced to six months...
The Alexandria Document on the “Problems of Arab Reform: Vision and Implementation" presented a vision of the change which Arab intellectuals aspire for in the Arab World, along political, economic, social, cultural and civil society axes. The aspired reform calls for giving civil society free...
There has been an uproar in Spain due to a religious book written by the mosque Imam Sheikh Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, titled "Women in Islam." Women’s rights groups denounced the book. They think that the book urges violence against women. The problem about the book is the part in which Sheikh...
The article reports about Muhammad Kamal Mustafa, an Egyptian Imam living in Spain who was sentenced to jail and fined 2,160 Euro by a Spanish court. Mustafa is accused of publishing a book in which he says that punishing a disobedient woman should be done through light beating. The court...
The author explains the misunderstanding of the concept of “secularism." in Islamic and Arab societies; secularism is presented as a call for atheism and apostasy. Based on this misunderstanding, some launched an attack on France because the country has banned religious symbols in public schools...
There has been a wide political debate about a judicial complaint calling for the confiscation of the book “Al-Hijab: Ro’ya ‘Assriya” [The Headscarf: A Contemporary Perspective] by and the dismissal of the author and editor-in-chief of Hawa [Eve] magazine Iqbal Baraka from her job. The...
The Minister of Justice issued the confidential decree to give the sheikhs of the Azhar the right to “judicial seizure.” That means they will be able to attack any publishing house and search it for banned books at any moment. Whoever has “judicial seizure” authority has the right to break into a...
Dr. Nawal Al-Sa’adawi expressed her anger over the decision of the Islamic Research Institution to confiscate her famous novel “Soqout Al-Imam” [the fall of the Imam] which was printed for the first time 20 years ago. The novel was translated into 14 languages. The new battle between the Azhar and...

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