In the year 2000, Egyptian women were given the right to unilateral divorce through a procedure called khul'. Khul' became the source of much controversy in Egyptian society, and most judges interviewed by the author expressed a negative viewpoint when asked about it. Nevertheless, the introduction of the Family Court system in 2004, with the explicit aim of solving marital disputes through mediation and communication, has made possible a 'dialogue' between husband and wife in a khul' procedure. This applies even in situations where mediators and judges profess an unfavourable opinion of women who file for khul' divorce.
Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt
How Family Courts Are Providing a ‘Dialogue’ between Husband and Wife
Nadia Sonneveld
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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Inaudito exemplo
The Abduction of Romsey’s Abbess
Linda D. Brown
most: Pope Alexander III. He did not accept the marriage and worked over the course of nine years to dissolve it. By 1168, the Pope launched a successful attack when he backed a dubious dower claim on behalf of Constance of France. 27 Her marriage to
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Illegible Allegations
Navigating the Meanings of Rape in Colonial Algeria
Sarah Ghabrial
] to come voluntarily and have his parents provide [a sum] as dower for the young girl who, upon nubility, will be married to [the accused]. 33 In the margins beside this sentence is written, “Rejected by the parents of the accused.” When the
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
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Etty Terem
its approach to rape. She demonstrates that in requesting monetary compensatory remedies for rape (usually in an amount equivalent to the dower), Algerian women invoked local norms (customary practices or sharı¯‘a -based prescriptions). However, in
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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The Good, the Bad, and the Dead
The Place of Destruction in the Organization of Social Life, Which Means Hierarchy
Frederick H. Damon
, white lynchers seized the victims’ knuckles, bones, skull or some other part of the body and treated them as icons to be treasured and proudly displayed.” This is a significant pattern in American culture. John Dower (1986: 65 ; footnotes omitted
Richard Bessel
, 2004), 199–201. 45 John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), 176. 46 This argument is developed in detail in Bessel, Violence . 47 Michele C. Black, Kathleen C. Basile, Matthew J. Breiding
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Bringing Lebanon’s Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature
Alameddine’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Yousef Awad
-adopted to our hate, Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oath, Take her, or leave her? (1.1.203–6) In I, the Divine , Sarah gets married to Omar under similarly controversial circumstances: she elopes with her Greek Orthodox lover without the
Mireia Comas-Via
Translator : Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel
because of the possession of a dowry and a substantial dower, as well as the wedding and household “paraphernalia,” which were usually controlled by widows, and generous bequests from their husbands’ wills. The economic independence of women was mostly
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Pious Women in a “Den of Scorpions”
The Piety and Patronage of the Eleventh-Century Countesses of Brittany
Amy Livingstone
church. One of Havoise’s last acts was to make a gift herself to the abbey of St. Georges. 24 She gave her dower property to the nuns, along with additional land in Rennes and property on which the nuns could build two mills. 25 Havoise was a learned
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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“Give Me Back My Son!”
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emotion Talk, and the Gendering of Political Rhetoric
Linda E. Mitchell
X X X Release from Imprisonment X X X Orders Release of Prisoners X Receives Dower X X X X X Regent for Richard X X X With Richard re: Scots Homage X X Travels to Rome X X X Marriage of Richard and Berengaria X X X X X X Returns to England X X
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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