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Television talk show host Matilda Farjallah shifts forward in her chair and looks the white bearded Sunni sheikh sitting across the table directly in the eyes. "Tahzeeb al-mara ("instructing the woman") is discussed in the Koran. Does it allow instructing a woman by beating her?" she asks.

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