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Legal News Headlines

  • Tunis/Kairouan, 21 May 2013

    “Amina Tyler, Tunisia’s ‘topless jihad’ activist, caught and under arrest” (Al Arabiya) Amina Tyler, 19, the outspoken Tunisian feminist who sparked a trend of “topless jihad” has been arrested. She may be charged for conducting “provocative acts”... Mehr...
  • Sanaa, 16 May 2013

    “Yemenis reel from Saudi labour crackdown” (Aljazeera) On July 3 the new punitive labour law with stricter regulations for the foreign labourers will come into effect in Saudi Arabia... Mehr...
  • Manama, 15 May 2013

    “Twitter activists jailed in Bahrain for insulting king” (BBC News Middle East) A court in Bahrain has sentenced six twitter activists to a year in jail for insulting King Hamad and the ruling al Khalifa family... Mehr...
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Tagesanzeiger.ch: Verwirrliche Vielweiberei

Eveline Schneider Kayasseh, Das Recht Saudi-Arabiens und der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate - Tradition und Moderne, SZIER 2/2012, S. 243-287.

Eveline Schneider Kayasseh, Grundlagen der Herrschaft und Aspekte religiös-kultureller Differenzierungen in Bahrain, in Leander D. Loacker and Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht (ed.), Differenzierung als Legitimationsfrage, Zürich/St. Gallen 2012, pp 497-525

Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies (CIMELS)

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Prof. Dr. iur. Andrea Büchler
Institute of Law, University of Zurich

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