by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2005
BEIRUT, LEBANON: Television talk-show host Matilda Farjallah shifts forward in her chair and looks the white-bearded Sunni sheikh sitting across the table directly in the eyes. “Tahzeeb al-mara [“instructing the woman”] is discussed in the Koran. Does it allow instructing a woman by beating her?” she asks. Men, the sheikh responds, can instruct women – [...]
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