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Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

Change and Stasis since the Arab Spring
Adrien K. Wing, University of Iowa
Hisham A. Kassim, Kassim Legal, PLLC, Washington, DC
May 2023
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    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.

    • Covers women's and family law rights from multiple countries in the Middle East/North Africa `
    • Argues that little has changed in the realm of women and family law rights in the Middle East/North Africa since the Arab Spring
    • Featuring contributors from around the world each chapter cites specific references in the personal status codes of each country

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    May 2023
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781009351133
    0 pages
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • 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.
      Contributors
    • Adrien Katherine Wing, Hisham Kassim, Mounira M. Charrad, Hyun Jeong Ha, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Stephanie Willman Bordat, Saida Kouzzi, Haider Ala Hamoudi, Nada Ammar, Sara Ababneh, Michael Moussa Karayanni, Jonathan Kuttab, Lina M. Kassem

    • Editors
    • Adrien K. Wing , University of Iowa

      Adrien K. Wing is Associate Dean for International and Comparative Programs at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she has taught for over thirty-five years. She is also the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law. Author of over 150 publications, her courses include Law in the Muslim World.

    • Hisham A. Kassim , Kassim Legal, PLLC, Washington, DC

      Hisham A. Kassim is a seasoned attorney at Kassim Legal, PLLC, Washington DC who represents a wide range of international and MENA-based clients. Kassim is fluent in Arabic and English and is a published scholar in major US law reviews.