The Sexual Misery of the Arab World Source: New York Times By Kamel Daoud ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of […]
With the German church’s global influence, a meeting of bishops and laypeople to take up hot-button topics has led to warnings of a new schism, originating in the home of […]
Source: Arab weekly By Hassan Abdel Zaher is a Cairo-based contributor to The Arab Weekly. Cairo – Rania Hashem is seen as an enemy to many of Egypt’s married women. […]
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian woman says she’s scored an important legal victory against her country’s inheritance laws, which grant female heirs half of what they grant men. Huda Nasrallah, […]
Epigraph We have not sent you Muhammad, but as mercy for the whole of mankind! (Al Quran 21:107/108) Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD Nobel Prize for a noble woman […]
Source: Independent ‘The government is always perfectly happy to relegate minority women to kangaroo courts and faith-based parallel legal systems’ By Maya Oppenheim, @mayaoppenheim Women are being left to go […]
Source: Al Hakam The Promised Messiah Responding to Allegations Why are two female witnesses equal to one male witness in Islam? By Farhan Iqbal, Missionary, Canada Gender equality is one […]
Source: Al Jazeera Case involving Coptic Christian woman comes as calls for equal inheritance rights reverberate across the Arab world. An Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic […]
Source: The Guardian By Angela Giuffrida in Rome Campaigners gather outside Vatican as church struggles with shortage of priests Campaigners have gathered in Rome to call for the lifting of a […]
Prominent women’s rights activist Marina Mahathir says there is a disconnect between what Muslim women expect and what happens in real life By Tashny Sukumaran A whopping 70 per cent […]
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
A candidate in this year’s Federal National Council elections is calling for Emirati men to be encouraged to marry more than one wife as a solution to “spinsterhood” among […]
Inspired by those brave enough to change the game. The Toronto Raptors Nike Pro Hijab is available now.#WeTheNorth pic.twitter.com/D1fY1mWGhy — Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) September 13, 2019 Source: New York […]
Suggested reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal
Durr-e-Shehwar (Urdu: دُرّ شہوار) is a Urdu language Pakistani telenovela written by Umera Ahmed and directed by Haissam Hussain. First broadcast in Pakistan by Hum TV, Durr-e-Shehwar, which premiered in Pakistan on 10 March 2012, has been produced by Momina Duraid and […]
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal BBC Big Questions – Are Religions Unfair To Women? https://t.co/E6UbsSI1wx via @wordpressdotcom — […]
Source: The Washington Post By Petula Dvorak, Columnist Here’s who Mary Magdalene was: one of Jesus Christ’s original followers, the last to stay with him while he was nailed to […]
Pope: Commission on female deacons disagrees on ordination Source: AP ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Tuesday that an international commission of scholars has failed to reach […]
Source: New York Times By Kai Schultz VRINDAVAN, India — Like thousands of other widows exiled from their homes to a city in northern India, Nirmala Maheshwari said she was […]
