Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis since the Arab Spring

ISBN-13: 9781009351126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Adrien K. Wing; Hisham A. Kassim

Opis

The book serves as reference point for anyone interested in the Middle East and North Africa as well as for those interested in women's rights and family law, generally or in the MENA region. Only book covering personal status codes of nearly a dozen countries.

Spis treści

Introduction: family law and gender in the Middle East after the Arab Spring Adrien Katherine Wing and Hisham Kassim; 1. Sustained reforms: family law in Tunisia Mounira M. Charrad and Hyun Jeong Ha; 2. Family law in Egypt Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron; 3. Women's rights in the Moroccan family code: caught between change and continuity Stephanie Willman Bordat and Saida Kouzzi; 4. Postponing equality in the Algerian family code Stephanie Willman Bordat and Saida Kouzzi; 5. Juristic and legislative rulemaking: a history of the personal status code of Iraq, 1959–2020 Haider Ala Hamoudi; 6. The status of Muslim Women in the mosaic of Islamic family law in Lebanon Nada Ammar; 7. In circles we go: a brief historical overview of the Jordanian personal status law Sara Ababneh; 8. The Palestinian minority in Israel Michael Moussa Karayanni; 9. West Bank and Gaza personal status law Jonathan Kuttab and Adrien Wing; 10. Qatari family law, when custom meets Shari'a Lina Mohammed Kassem.