Islam

Last year, Zeinab Abdel Aziz, an Egyptian-American teacher visited Egypt with her family to attend the weddings of her two…

Saudi Arabia’s religious police, commonly known as Mutaween, have started tapping social internet networks like Facebook, Twitter, and chat rooms,…

On Monday night AUC’s Oriental Hall was packed with scholars, students and journalists for a lecture by prominent academic Joseph…

Bishop Bishoy, secretary of the Coptic Church’s Holy Synod, endorsed

A number of websites have posted a video clip of a woman claiming to be Camilla Shehata, the wife of…

In a speech yesterday celebrating Laylat al-Qadr, President Hosni Mubarak denounced the tarnishing of Islam by voices from both within…

I arrived in Cairo just as Ramadan was starting. Before I left Italy, where I am from, some friends made…

Egypt's rahman , or 'mercy,' tables are more of a cultural phenomenon than a religious one. The tables, seen all…

“The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam” By Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010.)

Parents have no right to force daughters who have not yet reached adulthood to wear the Islamic face veil, Minister…