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Let Them Be Scandalized: An Egyptian Woman Challenges Society's Ideas of Dishonor
Via Mahmood's Den:

...This is the time to celebrate Hind el-Hinnawy, a 27 year-old Egyptian costume designer who with one bold gesture scandalized a religiously conservative society wallowing in its own schizoid hypocrisy and had her baby in that ambivalent zone of civil (urfi) marriage, going on to file a paternity suit against the famous, or by now infamous, actor, Ahmed Al-Fishawy.

Al-Fishawy apparently had dabbled in religious education in an era when religious instruction has become a favorite pastime for celebrities, a highly lucrative endeavor for redeeming reputations and enhancing respectability.

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Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-01-28
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=54937