Sameh Askar News Today

In December 2022, as every year before Christmas and New Year's Day, there was a debate in the Arab media and social media on whether Muslims are permitted to extend holiday greetings to the Christians.[1] This debate emerged especially after religious and political leaders in the Muslim world extended greetings to the Christians, sparking criticism from extremist Muslims.

Pictures recently circulated on social media showed girls in a junior high school in a village in Egypt wearing a chador, a long traditional robe that covers the head and the entire body, common in Iran and Afghanistan, known in Egypt as an isdal.

Egypt’s parliamentary Defense and National Security Committee is discussing a plan to remove any mention of Quranic verses from the curriculum and limit them to religious courses, claiming to be part of a plan to fight extremism.