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Wikipedia:Mahfouz did not shrink from controversy outside of his work. As a
consequence of his outspoken support for Sadat’s Camp David peace treaty with Israel in 1978, his books were banned in many Arab countries until after he won the Nobel prize.
Like many Egyptian writers and intellectuals,
Mahfouz was on an Islamic fundamentalist “death list”.
He defended Salman Rushdie after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Rushdie to death in 1989, but also criticized his Satanic Verses as “insulting” to Islam. Mahfouz believed in freedom of expression and although he did not personally agree with Rushdie’s work, he did not believe that there should be a fatwa condemning him to death for it. He also condemned Khomeini for issuing the fatwa, for he did not believe that the Ayatollah was representing Islam.
In 1989, after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa calling for Salman Rushdie and his publishers to be killed, Mahfouz called Khomeini a terrorist.[4] Shortly after Mahfouz joined 80 other intellectuals in declaring that “no blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer.”[5]
The Rushdie incident also provoked fundamentalist Muslims to regret not having made an example of Mahfouz, one telling a journalist:
If only we had behaved in the proper Islamic manner with Naguib Mahfouz, we would not have been assailed by the appearance of Salman Rushdie. Had we killed Naguib Mahfouz, Salman Rushdie would not have appeared.[6]
There are many reasons why Egyptian women consider leaving Egypt: - look for another job - looking for better pay - to escape society and its rules and restrictions - to escape the pressures of society on women to get married - adventure, to explore the world The personal status of the women is usually either single or divorced, as married women are naturally tied to the fates of their husbands.
Popular destinations are: Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Canada, US and Australia. Whether the woman is traveling to the West or to the Gulf, she breaks the chains handcuffing her by the society of Egypt.
The Gulf although have become more progressive than before, and open to single women expatries living there, still occasionally can be a little hars to a single Arab female expat living there in comparison to a European female for example.
To conclude, the decision to leave Egypt or not, has to be thought carefully, after honestly sitting with oneself, and assessing one’s priorities. What’s more important, my career or my social life? Can I tolerate the constraining social rules of the Egyptian society for the sake of living near my family? If I do travel, and decide to come back, will I be up to the consequences? All these thought provoking questions have to be answered, before considering leaving Egypt.
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Voices of Cairo is a short film intended to act as a preview of Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo a feature length documentary film, audio archiving and multi-media installation project about the adhan, or call to prayer, in Cairo – a 1,400 year old oral tradition that has never been documented or recorded for historical study.
Using the adhan as the vehicle, Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo provides opportunity to broaden the understanding of the Muslim world in a contemporary social context. Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo seeks to preserve and record Cairo’s muezzins and the adhans they recite in their entirety for the first – and only – time in history. It is the mission of ON LOOK FILMS, by engaging and inspiring the viewer to reach across cultural divides, to help preserve 1,400 years of human history and contribute to a more peaceful world.
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