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اغرب شيء في الحياة ان تعرف بالضبط ماذا تفعل ، ولكن لا تفعله
ان تدرك الحقيقة ولا تتبعها، ان تملك الحق ولا تطالب به
ان تضع الاشياء في مكانها الصحيح اصبح من الماضي على مايبدو ، نفس الاراء اينما ذهبت عن المرأة وعن مفهوم حريتها ((المحدود جدا)) في كل مكان حتى في الجامعات التي من المفترض ان […]

In an act that has sparked outrage among Egyptian women’s rights activists, a controversial Islamic scholar filed a lawsuit against the minister of health protesting a recent ban on female circumcision, a practice referred to by rights groups as female genital mutilation (FGM). Egyptian Sheikh Youssif al-Badri claimed the ministerial decree violated the Egyptian […]

(From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail December 12, 2007 )
Late Monday night, one of those many conflicted Muslim teens died, succumbing to injuries she received at the hands of her own father, if the police version of events is true. Friends said the 16-year-old Mississauga teen, Aqsa Parvez, had enraged her parents by refusing to […]

يقال أن الفلسفة اليونانية تمثل البداية الحقيقية نحو تأكيد استقلال الفكر بذاته بعيدا عن عالم الأسطورة، ولكن ليست الفلسفة هي موضوعنا الرئيسي هنا، ولكنه استقلالية الفكر، والمبدأ، والرأي…
 لعله لا يخفى على البعض أن مجتمعاتنا الشرقية ما زالت تفكر في نفس الأطر بحجة الحفاظ على العادات والتقاليد والتي من الممكن أن  تتضارب مع المنطق أو الدين، […]

When Rajaa Alsanea’s debut novel was released in Lebanon in late 2005, it created a sensation in the Middle East by portraying the private lives of young Saudi women in colloquial Arabic and relatively explicit detail. Now, English-language readers can see what the fuss was about.
Alsanea dives into the world of a group of women […]

Even William Shakespeare doesn�t spare his efforts to warn us from the so-called honor killings. You might be surprised by my statement, but he really did. Don�t you remember Othello the Arab Prince who slaughtered his wife Desdemona just because of rumors about her cheating on him with another man ( his friend, Cassio)?. I […]