Family law and gender in the Middle East and North Africa : change and stasis since the Arab spring / edited by Adrien K. Wing, Hisham A. Kassim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wing, Adrien Katherine, editor.

Kassim, Hisham A., 1981- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic relations--Arab countries.

Domestic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The volume 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. It is the only book covering personal status codes of nearly a dozen countries. It covers Muslim family law in the following Middle East/north African countries: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and Qatar. Some of these countries were heavily affected by the Arab Spring, and some were not. With authors from around the world, each chapter of the book provides a history of personal status law both before and after the revolutionary period. Tunisia emerges as the country that made the most significant progress politically and with respect to women's rights. A decade on from the Arab Spring, across the region there is more evidence of stasis than change.

Contents:

Introduction : Family Law and Genderin the Middle East after the Arab Spring / Adrien Katherine Wing & Hisham Kassim

Sustained Reforms : Family Law in Tunisia / Mounira M. Charrad and Hyun Jeong Ha

Family Law in Egypt / Nathalie Bernard- Nathalie

Women's Rights in the Moroccan Family Code : Caught Between Change and Continuity / Stephanie Willman Bordat and Saida Kouzzi

Postponing Equality in the Algerian Family Code / Stephanie Willman Bordat and Saida Kouzzi

Juristic and Legislative Rulemaking : A History of the Personal Status Code of Iraq, 1959-2020 / Haider Ala Hamoudi

The Syrian Law of Personal Status : Spirit & Application / Ghimar Deeb and Mai Massoud

The Status of Muslim Women in the Mosaic of Islamic Family Law in Lebanon / Nada Ammar

In Circles We Go : A Brief Historical Overview of the Jordanian Personal Status Law / Sara Ababneh

The Palestinian Minority in Israel / Michael Moussa Karayanni

Personal Status Law in Palestine / Jonathan Kuttab and Adrien Wing

Qatari Family Law : When Custom Meets Shariʻa / Lina M. Kasse.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 May 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009351133

1009351133

9781009351140

1009351141

9781139151719

1139151711