Educational Material
At a wedding in Ramallah last Thursday, the groom Ashraf repeated after Ms Hamad, while shaking hands with the father of his bride, Ranya: “I accepted the marriage of your daughter and agreed to a dowry of one dinar according to God’s book and... Read more
AWMWC AMMAN- A court ruling in Jordan that women not wearing hijab (a head cover) are unfit to testify as witnesses in front of the judge stirs controversy and angers activists. The court’s ruling, which was published by the daily... Read more
News
The High Criminal Court in Bahrain has sentenced a former senior banking official to five years in prison
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News
British property developer Safi Qurashi, this week freed by a Dubai court after two-and-a-half years in jail, was rearrested on Tuesday over criminal charges brought against him by debt-ridden developer Nakheel
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Herstory
By Iqbal Tamimi In an unprecedented incidence, Egypt’s new Family Court has witnessed the first case of ‘Khula’ , based on “political” reasons, following a disagreement over the presidential candidate
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Art and Culture
By Iqbal Tamimi An Egyptian Court has issued a decision stopping the transmission of two Egyptian TV channels, owned by Jamal Ashraf Marwan, the grandson of the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, over charges of failing to observe... Read more