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Written by Said Samir
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Unlike the current days, sexuality in Egypt at the time of Pharaohs used to be open, untainted by guilt. Sex was an important part of life - from birth to death and rebirth. Singles and married couples made love. The gods themselves were earthy enough to copulate. The Egyptians even believed in sex in the afterlife. Sex was not taboo... Even the Egyptian religion was filled with tales of adultery, incest, homosexuality and masturbation... with hints of necrophillia! Masculinity and femininity itself were strongly linked with the ability to conceive and bear children...
Egypt was and is a civilization of vast diversity. Ancient Egypt had many different sexual behaviors and diversities: homosexuality, transgenderism, incest marriages, exhibitionism, prostitution, adultery, bestiality, necrophilia, and others. There were different customs among nobility, common people, and slaves. Nobility had a wide range of marital customs and practically all sexual behaviors were both accepted and condemned depending on the time period and the ruling class. This was similar with the common people, only there seems to be a more strict regime in marriage, and a variety of punishments to those who broke the laws. What was acceptable among slaves and concubines was dependent upon their owners. Although Egypt has similarities to other civilizations, they also had unique sexual imagery and customs. |
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Terrorism or Freedom-Fighting |
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Written by Said Samir
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Sunday, 24 July 2005 |
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Weapons never killed ideas. Therefore, military action against international terrorism may not be a viable alternative. If the core motive for international terrorism is ideological and/or political then those who perpetrate terrorism are not just criminals, but they are also believers who consider what they are doing to be the right thing and worthy of dying for. Here lies the real danger. The whole world is responsible for letting such a belief grow and spread and accordingly responsible for correcting this fiction. |
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This article is a result of an
interdisciplinary research project on the Metropolitan Food
System of Cairo, Egypt undertaken by the Institute of Cultural Geography, Freiburg
University, Germany, and funded by the German
Research Foundation (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).
“Matariya” here is based on the 1986 census and includes
Matariya Bahriya, Matariya
Gharbiya, Matariya Gibliya, Shagaraat Mariam, Arab Abu
Tawiilah and the western parts of
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The habit of mixing religion with science is as ancient as witchcrafts in the early human history. Some even claim that religion was introduced by the lack of science at the beginning of human history and till now. During the last few decades, that ancient forced-mix popped up again, and instead of using science to study and better understand the development of religion, many islamist scholars are redefining religious literature to explain and justify scientific facts. 
