Bassant Soliman’s suicide triggered renewed public backlash against personal status laws in Egypt
Objection to the potential selling of endowments has primarily come from Al-Azhar.
A government freeze on new permanent contracts for public school teachers is in its seventeenth year
Like its previous iterations, the unified bill references the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence
The committee that approves gender reassignment surgeries has not met in years
Abdel Hameed’s court battle brings further scrutiny to the heavy toll women face in parentage cases
Former deputy Endowments Minister Salem Abdel Gelil has been suspended after he made inflammatory remarks against Coptic Christians on air
Cairo misdemeanor court upheld a one-year sentence handed to preacher and researcher Islam al-Beheiry for insulting Islam, the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported…
Islamic researcher and preacher Islam al-Beheiry's one-year prison sentence was widely condemned by public figures, rights organizations and political parties on Wednesday, who claimed that…
A misdemeanor court reduced the five-year jail sentence of preacher and researcher Islam al-Beheiry on Monday, giving him just one year instead…
«At the center of the 'year of women' is the relationship between men»
«“Sheikhs issue religious edicts for the price of two chickens. They are no more than stooges of backwardness, feudalism and capitalism.” This is how former President…»
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