Modest, veil-wearing 'first servant' of Egypt emblematic of shift in nation's presidency Egypt’s new first lady Naglaa Ali Mahmoud and her predecessor Suzanne Mubarak have at least one thing in ...

CAIRO, Nov 20, 2008 (AFP) - The Egyptian ministry for religious endowments has weighed into the debate on whether a Muslim woman should wear a face veil with a book arguing that it is not Islamic, a ...

Cairo (Aug 21, 2008) - In a Muslim country where the numbers of women wearing the veil are rising, and so — by most accounts — are incidents of groping and catcalls in the streets, the message ...

Egypt’s Cairo university has banned teachers from wearing full face veil, sparking complaints Islamic clerics and students have denounced the move as discriminatory, but Nassar said he has the ...

According to some Egyptian lawmakers they are. So much so that this predominantly Muslim country’s parliament is reportedly drafting legislation that would ban women from wearing the veil, known ...

Outside one the university's female residences, students said they had been stopped at the gates when they tried to enter wearing face veils. "I don't understand their point of view. If it's for ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt’s top Islamic cleric is planning to ban students wearing the face veil from entering the schools of al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s premier institute of learning, according to ...

The city of Dresden on Thursday paid its respects to a pregnant Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a courtroom one year ago in a racially motivated crime that outraged the Muslim world.