Date of source: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The niqāb is stirring controversy in different parts of the World. An Egyptian university professor is to be sued for criticizing it; the Egyptian muftī advises that women don’t wear it and students wearing it will be barred from accessing a university hostel. In Western countries it is regarded as...
Date of source: Sunday, October 15, 2006
The Muftī of Egypt Dr ‘Alī Jum‘ah issued a controversial fatwá that a pregnant woman whose husband had died or left for four years cannot be considered an adulteress.
Date of source: Friday, August 18, 2006
Dr. Hammād cAbd Allāh Hammād criticizes some practices in the tourist sector in Egypt especially forbidding veiled women from entering certain tourist establishments.
Date of source: Saturday, May 6, 2006 to Friday, May 12, 2006
Rose al-Yousuf publishes the full text of the appeal made by Pope Shenouda III against a court ruling obliging him to grant permission to divorced Copts to remarry.
Date of source: Friday, December 12, 2003
The writer presents an overview toof the status of Muslims in France and its governmental leadership in the light of the new call for issuing a law that eliminates wearing the hijab and other religious forms and manifestations in schools and public corporations.
Date of source: Thursday, October 16, 2003
The article is an interview with Dr. Abdel-Mo´ti Bayoumi. He comments on ijtihad, secularism and the legality of women issuing fatwas. He also comments on his expectation of being appointed rector of the Azhar University.
Date of source: Friday, October 10, 2003
The article is an interview with Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III. He comments on the relation between the church and the state, opposition within the church, divorce among Copts, homosexuality, his relations with former president Sadāt and his relation with Archpriest Mattá al-Maskīn [Yūsuf...
Date of source: Friday, July 1, 2005
Al Ghad newspaper wrote in its June issue that a journalist called Ulā Jalāl were "harrased by the security police" and "ayman nour's supporters rushed to save her". Ulā Jalāl denies all the previous statments.
Date of source: Thursday, December 2, 2004
Ahmed Kamal Abu Al-Magd, a former Minister of Information and Youth and professor of public law at the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, said that he does not support the conspiracy theory trend but that he views a scheme that aims at marginalizing the Muslim world and brushing it aside from the...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
A veiled French woman is running for a parliamentary seat that is now vacant after the death of an MP from the Union for Political Movement (UMP) and if matters went along well, she could be the first veiled woman in the history of the French National Assembly.