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Progressive or Conservative, Women Influence Islam

By Charles Levinson ● Arts & Culture ● October 9, 2005

Three north African women–Latifa Jbabdi, Nadia Yassine and Soad Saleh–are playing an active part in the lively regional debate over women’s role in Islam. Third in a series about emerging female leaders in Africa.

How Progressives Look at Women in the Koran

By Charles Levinson ● Uncategorized ● October 8, 2005

The Muslim world is holding a spirited debate about the role of women as interpreted through religious doctrine. Some passages in the Koran inspire more debate than others.

Egyptian Women See Divorce as Religious Right

By Charles Levinson ● Arts & Culture ● January 9, 2005

Women’s struggle to change Egypt’s divorce law shows how women’s rights advocates here are relying increasingly on Islam to advance their arguments for gender equality.

U.S. Policy Imperils Egypt’s Family-Planning Push

By Charles Levinson ● Uncategorized ● May 2, 2004

A U.S.-funded reproductive health program in Egypt upgrades rural care and helps women understand contraception. Aimed at curbing population growth, it is the last program of its kind and threatened by U.S. foreign aid policy.

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Progressive or Conservative, Women Influence Islam

How Progressives Look at Women in the Koran

Egyptian Women See Divorce as Religious Right

U.S. Policy Imperils Egypt’s Family-Planning Push