A university has reported that it has expelled a female student after she appeared in a video hugging a male colleague, accusing her of undermining the school’s reputation.
The video was apparently not filmed at Al-Azhar a branch of Egypt’s highest Sunni Muslim authority but at another establishment, Mansoura University in the country’s north.
Nevertheless the disciplinary council of the Al-Azhar University campus in Mansoura on Saturday “decided to expel the young girl definitively”, university spokesman Ahmed Zarie told AFP.
He said the video had caused a “public outcry” and that the university’s decision to expel her was because she had presented a “bad image” of Al-Azhar University, which strictly segregates the genders.
He said hugging between unmarried men and women violates “the values and principles of society”.