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Date of source: Friday, April 23, 2021
Imān Mirsāl, an Egyptian novelist and translator, won the Sheikh Zayed [Shaykh Zāyid] Book Award in the Literature category—granted by the United Arab Emirates—for her book, ‘In the Footsteps of Inayat El Zayat’ [Fī Athar ʿInāyāt al-Zayāt], published by Dār al-Kutub Khān in 2019. The results were...
Date of source: Sunday, March 21, 2021
Author Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī died after a long battle with illness at the age of 89. She was born on 27th October 1931, in the village of Kafr Ṭalḥa in the Qalyūbiyya governorate. She studied medicine at Cairo university and graduated in 1955, specialising in respiratory diseases.
Date of source: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The subject of women and their position in Islam still arouses intellectual, legal, and political controversy in different places of stability around the world. Accusations against Islam and Islamists of regarding women as weak and degrading them still remain. ʿArabī 21 is opening a portfolio...
Date of source: Monday, July 22, 2019
The issue of menstruating women still attracts the attention of the Coptic public opinion, and raises controversy between reformist vs. conservative views, and between rejection and acceptance.
Date of source: Friday, November 30, 2018
When he wrote his book ‘Taḥrīr al-Mar'ah’ (1989), (The Liberation of Women), the Egyptian aristocratic judge and national activist, Qāsim Amīn did not know that 120 years later, his book would be a double-edged sword. Already at the time, he realized that instead of reforming the nation by opening...
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2017
About the Authors:
Mette Toft Nielsen completed her M.A. degree in Culture, Communication and Globalization in Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013. Nielsen began her career at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, researching the reasons why people choose to emigrate for her M.A. thesis....
Date of source: Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Danish researcher Mette Toft Nielsen, former CAWU intern and main author of the book Women in Post- Revolutionary Egypt: Can Behavior Be Controlled? (withPeter Hervik, 2017) held a book launch event on the 21st of October, 2017, in the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute in Zamalek, Cairo.
Date of source: Monday, April 18, 2016
The Faculty of Arts of the University of Beni Suef, organized a seminar under the title “ women's rights between Islamic Jurisprudence and the law" under the supervision of Dr. Jawdat Mabrūk , the Dean of the College.
Date of source: Sunday, January 25, 2009
Female circumcision is a very complex issue. This article sheds light on the religious, social, and medical viewpoints regarding practicing circumcision in society. Besides, the church’s firm stance against such harmful habit is stressed through a book by Father ‘Awad
Date of source: Saturday, June 28, 2008
The article mentions books that have been banned or approved by the Islamic Research Academy.
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