CAIRO: As Egypt gets ready to welcome its first freely elected president, sources inside Cairo's Torah prison said jailed dictator Hosni Mubarak's heart stopped twice and the aging former leader is expected to be transferred to a military hospital (...)
RABAT, Morocco: Regardless of what she is writing about – whether it's women's rights in the Arab world, the fear of Islam in the West or cultural globalization – Fatema Mernissi, the Moroccan academic and essayist, succeeds not only in informing (...)
The artists' colony at Sidi Bou Said — a northern Tunisian town — has become a favorite destination for foreign tourists in Tunisia. The narrow, winding streets with their white Andalusian-style houses, the fiery red cascades of bougainvilleas (...)
BONN, Germany: The artists' colony at Sidi Bou Said – a northern Tunisian town – has become a favorite destination for foreign tourists in Tunisia. The narrow, winding streets with their white Andalusian-style houses, the fiery red cascades of (...)
BONN, Germany: Islam, gender equality and human rights are compatible - this is a basic conviction of Amina Wadud, author of several books about Islam and women. Martina Sabra interviewed the Islamic feminist at a recent conference about Women's (...)
Islam and feminism are not incompatible according to Moroccan doctor and writer Asma Lamrabet. In 2004, she founded a working group for women s issues and intercultural dialogue in Rabat. The initiative has now become well known throughout the Arab (...)