There is no law obliging students to be veiled: Education Ministry
This comes following a complaint from families at Al-Naseriya school in Zagazig, reporting that the school director forced their daughters to wear the veil
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Teacher investigated for preventing girl from taking exam
Teacher in Alexandria investigated for preventing girl from sitting exam because her clothes ‘violated Sharia’
Frenchman convicted of veil assault
The man was also convicted of presenting a false identity to police.
ANHRI condemns discrimination against unveiled student
Twelve year-old Heba Mohamed was forbidden from having her picture taken with her karate class for not wearing the veil
Judging a woman by her cover
Adel Heine’s weekly column
Teacher who cut girls’ hair gets support
Father of one of the girls withdraws complaint
Veiled newscasters on state TV
is the appearance of a veiled newscaster a step towards deepening democracy and ending the discriminations or is it a step towards discrimination against non-veiled women and perhaps even against those women who do not wear the niqab as well?
Clinical death
As the world’s media have rushed to compete on the wave of rapid developments sweeping across the globe, Egypt’s state media focuses on a different story. The Maspero building – with its entire internal and external staff – keep drowning in deep and unchartered waters of corruption, misconduct and a performance far away from the …
A pointless piece of cloth debate
Few hours after Fatma Nabil has read the 12 o’clock news bulletin in her full cream-colored veil, the Egyptian media sphere has quivered with endless controversial discussions on the extent to which the entire country is deliberately being ‘Ikhwanised’. Being the first Egyptian female newsreader ever to appear on Egypt’s state television, the move assuredly …
As thin as a veil
The difference between a good night and a bad one for a woman in Egypt might be as thin as veil