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Egypt-Israel love fatwa highlights split on peace
al-Qatb
January 11, 2008
An Israeli Arab woman sent an e-mail some weeks ago to Sheikh Farahat Al-Mongy, an Islamic scholar from Egypt, complaining that her Egyptian husband, who used to live with her in Israel, had decided to break up their marriage and leave Israel for good.
News of the broken marriage thrilled Al-Mongy. To him, this meant that his latest fatwa, or religious edict, about the \”sinfulness\” of Egyptians getting married to Israelis, which he issued a month and a half ago, was having an effect.
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Gina Nahai
April 27, 2006
Salman Rushdie is at Disney Hall, addressing a near-capacity audience as part of the Music Center\’s 2006 Speaker Series. He has come this March 1 evening to talk about politics and art, truth and tyranny, free and forbidden speech. He has come, also, to promote his newest book.
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