Month: May 2013

Maghreb News 2013-05-05

Education | 2013-05-05 Manouba dean acquitted in niqab assault trial A court drops charges against Habib Kazdaghli for slapping a niqab-wearing student, but convicts his accuser and another woman of property damage. Politics |...

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Walking with the Berbers

Alaaaaaaaaaaah akubar” — The drone of the PA system echoes up and down the valley high above Imlil waking restless souls. The muezzin’s call to prayer sounds like a Honda 50 with only vaguely a human dimension attached to it. It...

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Survey : Muslim opinion

ISLAMIC law, in many eyes, has overtones of rigid puritanism. Yet some of its staunchest backers are also strong supporters of religious pluralism, reports the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, in a survey of 38,000 Muslims...

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