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Quran verses ringtones in Egypt
Image via Wikipedia While more and more people in Egypt use verses from the Quran as cell phone ringtones, the country’s highest religious legal authority says the practice is inappropriate. Web sites and television channels in Egypt advertise the verses for download, according to wire reports. But Mufti Ali Gomaa said using the verses as ringtones... »
Female polygamy article generates controversy
A member of the Egyptian parliament has filed a lawsuit over an article questioning why polygamy is allowed for men in Islam but not for women. Published in the independent newspaper Al Masry Al Youm, the article “My four husbands and I” by Nadine al-Bedair suggests that polygamy should either be allowed for both men... »
Police in Egypt arrest 155 for failing to keep Ramadan fast
Egyptian newspapers and human rights activists announced that 155 people were detained by police forces in Aswan, southern Egypt, for publicly eating, drinking or smoking during daylight hours in the holy month of Ramadan. However, many of those arrested said that the arrests were random. Some claimed they were actually fasting when they were rounded... »
The plight of the Zabaleen
The garbage collectors of Cairo live in neighborhoods spilling over with trash. The children play with the trash and in the trash, when they are not helping to sort or collect the trash. The women sit right in the trash, picking out rotten food with their hands and tossing it to their pigs, which... »
Egypt church issues first conversion certificate
Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has for the first time issued a certificate of conversion to a Muslim-born Christian, in a country where religious conversion is highly sensitive. Maher al-Gohari, who is seeking to change his religion on his official documents from Muslim to Christian was asked by a court to provide a conversion certificate from... »
