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Details: Written by: Hayat Alyaqout; Published: 15 May 2005; Hits: 1490

In this series, Hayat Alyaqout scrutinises the hijaab and touches upon several themes such as the religious authenticity of the hijaab, the overlap between the hijaab as a religious practice and the hijaab as a social practice, how men have their own hijaab too, and the philosophy of the hijaab in relation to the social notion of beauty. In the first part, she talks about the four main challenges raised against the authenticity of hijaab in Islam and refutes them. Noticing the Dichotomy

Details: Written by: Hayat Alyaqout; Published: 15 March 2005; Hits: 1952

In this series, Hayat Alyaqout scrutinises the hijab and touches upon several themes such as the religious authenticity of the hijab, the overlap between the hijab as a religious practise and the hijab as a social practise, how men have their own hijab too, and the philosophy of the hijab in relation to the social notion of beauty. In the first part, she talks about the four main challenges raised against the authenticity of hijab in Islam and refutes them. Some Boringly Repeated Statements:

Details: Written by: Hayat Alyaqout; Published: 15 February 2005; Hits: 1489

If you hear praising of Allah and prophet Mohammad (PBUH) on a TV channel that airs nothing but almost-nude video clips that are moreover inflicted with the single leitmotif of I love her, she loves me, and her she-camel loves my he-camel! as expressed by an old Arab poet, then this cannot be construed save under one of these three possibilities:

Details: Written by: Hayat Alyaqout; Published: 04 January 2002; Hits: 1473

If we cannot penetrate the biased and selective Western media, then wed better get our own. A famous proverb says, if you cant beat them join them , but the case of Iqraa Islamic T.V channel is just the opposite. Its an attempt of lighting a candle so that the tunnel, that we cannot penetrate, will not end dark and somber.

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