Opinion
The truth remains that a story about stuffing the breasts or lips of a singer with silicone is given more attention in Arab media than a conference organised and attended by women from all over the Middle East, notes Iqbal Tamimi.
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First published Fri 1st Oct 2010 Iqbal Tamimi Anyone who reads the alarming title quoting the President of Al-Azhar University saying ‘We have put an end to the practices of some preachers in the Islamic centres of Britain’, published by... Read more
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Lashing a doctor for claimed wrong prescription that has led to addiction, or lashing a female teacher 100 times in public and in the presence of all her students and some parents for throwing a shoe at a student, does not do the society any... Read more
This Sheikh Al-Kalbani’s pathetic fatwa is most degrading and most dishonest and unfair way to treat women and most certainly contradicts Islamic teachings that are based on honesty and justice by giving Saudi overseas students and travelling... Read more
Women are always secretaries and men are businessmen and bosses, women are always playing assistance not managerial roles. Such ads enforce a wrong stereotypic image of women as underachievers who can’t be in the lead, says Iqbal Tamimi. The... Read more
First Published: 2010-05-11 Even though I have never thought the Borqa or the Niqab is a good idea, and I am against it but I never declared my views because I do respect other people’s choices, says Iqbal Tamimi. Actor/ presenter Robert... Read more
First Published: 2010-05-03 The first of Maktoob’s sites that should have been shut down first is ‘Helwa’. I have been monitoring the website for academic research for a long time, one thing I am sure of; there is hardly any education of women... Read more
Palestinian journalists are injured, kicked, punched, dragged, beaten up or left to bleed until death? Some journalists reporting from conflict zones employed by ginormous media establishments, yet they are not even provided with a crash... Read more
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First Published: 2010-04-27 The new news channel would borrow from the business model used at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox and Sky News channels while broadcasting different content in the Middle East. This is bad news for the Arab audience, since... Read more
The use of the ‘olive branch’ is one of many words that are used as mental blinders. One would think that newspapers care a great deal about the olive branch and all the meanings that comes with it, says Iqbal Tamimi
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