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The author expresses her happiness with the National Council of Human Rights’ declaration that 2008 is the year of citizenship.
In a response to a severe attack by Nājih...
The recently announced introspections of the Jihād Islamic group revived discussions about the 10-year old revisions of al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah. On the tenth birthday of the group’s inspections, Muntasir al-Zayyāt announced the establishment of a new political party. Al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmīyah...
The Islamic Research Academy, affiliated with the Azhar, recently brought charges of insulting heavenly religions and God against Egyptian feminist and writer, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī, who is now in Brussels and is planning to stay away for six months so she can teach at a number of U.S. universities.
In the interview, Nawāl al-Sa‘dawī denies that she escaped from Egypt to Belgium and sought asylum in the U.S. out of fear. She expresses her contempt about the situation of men and women of letters in Egypt for they can not freely express their opinions.
Well-known Egyptian feminist writer, Dr. Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī and her daughter, Muna Hilmi, otherwise known as Muna Nawal Hilmī, have sparked heated controversy over their recent statements, in which they argued that a child should take his/her mother’s name, thus contradicting Islamic shari‘a...
Hamada Husayn reviews Dr. Nawāl al- Sa‘dāwī statements in an interview with al-‘Arabīya Channel, in which she talked about the idea of giving a child the surname of his/her mother.
Dr. Muna Hilmī expresses her astonishment at the reaction to her initiative to give the child the surname of his/her mother, besides the father’s name, and comments on some of these opinions.
The author read the Administrative Court’s ruling permitting three presenters from the Alexandria television channel to appear on screen wearing hijāb [veil covering a woman’s hair]. The court’s judgment considered the decision taken by the Minister of Information a violation to the principle of "...
The author criticizes the fact that mosques use loudspeakers for preaching all the time. She believes that using loudspeakers is one of the results of the Islamist religious expansion and a form of religious fanaticism.

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