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		<title>The freedom of non-expression</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates of banning the face veil want to take away the only choice some women have – the choice to conform.]]></description>
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		<title>The bold and the brilliant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 09:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Arab-American Miss USA may have put Muslim beauty on the western map, but let's also recall all those women of courage and talent.]]></description>
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		<title>Een verbod om te vieren</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/europe/belgium/burqa-nl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 07:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Het zogenaamde 'burqaverbod' is een vrouwvriendelijke wetvoorstel.]]></description>
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		<title>A ban to celebrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 07:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belgium's effort to ban the face veil is a statement of female empowerment and a vote against religious fundamentalism.]]></description>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need no segregation</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/egypt/segregation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sexual harassment in Egypt is leading to calls for gender segregation. But is hiding women really the solution?

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		<title>In the name of equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[choosing a name]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Society is becoming more equal but our surnames – borrowed from fathers and husbands – lag behind. Is there a fairer system?]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s love got to do with it?</title>
		<link>http://chronikler.com/middle-east/egypt/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KhaledDiab</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Osama Diab For Egyptian marriage offices, the search for profit has replaced the search for a perfect union. June 2009 It was a story of would-be love gone horribly wrong. Alaa El Din Mahmoud went to Al-Alamiya marriage office to find a suitable wife. The office made him a match, Mahmoud proposed and she said yes. He bought her gold, he bought her gifts, but every time he tried to talk about actually getting married, she evaded the topic. Finally the suitor sought help from lawyer Mohamed Konsouh. Together, they discovered that the woman was already married to the owner of the marriage office. “The owner of the office listed his own wife as a potential partner for his customers until one of the customers got involved in a relationship with her,” Konsouh says. Matchmakers, both formal and informal, have existed for as long as the concept of marriage has been around. But modern marriage offices have seemingly strayed far from the path of traditional matchmaking, often arranging temporary summer marriages for wealthy Arab tourists, or serving as a sort of immigration service by promising to match clients with partners of dual citizenship. Aside from diminishing the sanctity of [...]]]></description>
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