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ajonesn

Arranged marriage in Egypt - YouTube - 0 views

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  • ajonesn on 13 Apr 15
     
    This is an insightful video that shows directly into the lives of women in Egypt who have been victims of arranged marriage in their families. One is much more of a positive outlook on arranged marriage, while the other shows exactly what a woman can go through in a bad marriage.
kkerby223

Combatting Child Marriage in Saudi Arabia - 0 views

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child marriage saudi arabia

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  • kkerby223 on 10 Mar 15
     
    Upon researching issues in women's rights, an issue involving forced marriage came up as an issue for Saudi Arabia. This link is about forced marriage in Saudi Arabia. The article starts with the story of a 15 year old girl that was forced to marry a 90 year old man who paid her parents $17,000 for her. The article then goes into detail about who is to blame and how it is perceived religiously.
ajonesn

Yemeni Child Nada (who Fled Forced Marriage) & Egyptian Cleric DEBATE CHILD MARRIAG... - 0 views

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child forced marriage egyptian debate

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  • ajonesn on 13 Apr 15
     
    This shocking video is of an interview of a young child who was married off at the age of 10, to a 26 year old man. She describes marriage as servitude. Luckily, this is her story of fleeing the marriage 1 week before it being real.
kkerby223

Increased Number of Forced Marriage in Saudi Arabia - 0 views

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tahjeer marriage consent forced

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  • kkerby223 on 03 Apr 15
     
    This article discusses an increase in the number of forced marriages in Saudi Arabia. Tahjeer, a term used to describe a "marriage" in which the wife is unaware of doesn't consent to until it is over, is discussed.
sambofoster

MARRIAGE IN THE ARAB WORLD - 0 views

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Women Marriage Arab

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  • sambofoster on 23 Mar 16
     
    Policies related to young adults, women, and families in Arab countries need to take into account the changing marriage patterns and their social and economic implications. This policy brief highlights current trends in marriage patterns of women in the Arab world, emerging policy issues, and links between marriage patterns and other social and demographic trends.
sambofoster

How Arranged Marriage Works in Saudi Arabia - 0 views

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Women Marriage Saudi Arabia

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  • sambofoster on 23 Mar 16
     
    Many marriages in Saudi Arabia continue to be arranged marriages. However that is not to say that the bride or groom do not get a choice in the matter. They do. But if a bride and groom are brought together through family it is rare for either to reject the match.
ajonesn

How Egypt is keeping its women trapped in zombie society - Your Middle East - 0 views

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Egypt womens rights zombies

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  • he majority of families would rather have their daughters in an unfulfilling, even miserable marriage, convinced that she will somehow find a magical way to adapt, than see her alone
    • diamond03
      diamond03 on 29 Sep 14
       
      This is so sad and disturbing!
  • Female independence is looked down on,
  • true religious scholars are the first to reject any form of overt or clandestine female oppression
  • ...47 more annotations...
  • there is hope
  • intellectual women today stand in solidarity
  • woman's marital status is mutually exclusive from her value and right to lead a healthy, fulfilling life of her own.
  • suffering economy
  • women
  • society
  • spinsterhood
  • marriage in Egypt really means.
  • trapped
  • declining marriage rate in Egypt,
  • “transforming her into a commodity for the highest bidder.”
  • family to be the pillar of one's success
  • pros and cons,
  • codependence is highly favorable in the Middle Eas
  • typical Egyptian female's life, is to pursue an auspicious college degree
  • regarded as a supporter or sidekick,
  • “...an archaic notion that defines a woman's value by her husband's status”
  • improve her chances of finding a proper suitor
  • lifelong purpose of securing a husband.
  • he standard sequence of events for a typical Egyptian female's life, is to pursue an auspicious college degree (to improve her chances of finding a proper suitor, and assist her future children with their studies), possibly add to her assets by acquiring a mediocre job for a year or two (under the pretext of killing time and elevating her practical wisdom), and eventually fulfill her lifelong purpose of securing a
  • ones who suffer are those who can't find a “star.”
  • pressure from three distinctive sources
  • their rights and full potential, desperately seeking approval before they reach their “expiration date.
  • “Stepford wife model”,
  • incompatible matc
  • transforming her identity, s
  • driven towards more extreme measures.
  • parents employing psychological abuse
  • subject to such scrutiny
  • generation of women
  • oblivious t
  • conforming comes naturally to a lot of women,
  • On one hand
  • (parents-peers-society
  • quoting religious commandments promoting marriage,
  • coerce their daughters
  • into submission
  • threat of eternal damnation
  • (should she fail to perform this role and still wishes to enjoy her life then she will have indeed committed sacrilege and is a covertly regarded as a disgrace regardless of any other achievement)
  • peer-pressure;
  • still under the impression that exceptions do not exist .
  • 25-40
  • “business marriages”
  • Egyptians have a problem with evolution
  • persecute anomalies
  • educated middle class that crowns the highest rate of unmarried wome
  • women can hardly take care of themselves and that is the norm.
  • ajonesn on 13 Apr 15
     
    I enjoyed this article because it uses terminology that is not typically associated with this topic. The author compares Egyptian women to zombies, stating that they must "play-dead" or be "obliterated and shunned."
pvaldez2

Egyptian marriage law called 'legalized prostitution' - Marilyn Stowe Blog - 0 views

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egyptian marriage law prostitution

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  • pvaldez2 on 26 Jan 16
     
    A marriage law in Egypt is being condemned as "legalized prostitution" by women's rights activists. A foreign man who wants to marry a young Egyptian woman must pay for the privilege.
aromo0

Does Egypt's new tourist marriage law really 'protect women?' - Al Arabiya English - 0 views

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womens rights egypt money prostitution

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  • While the law is officially being presented as a means to protect the wife’s financial rights, should the husband make the marriage temporary, a large number of activists and rights groups see it as facilitating a disguised form of human trafficking.
  • Women rights activist Nehad Abul Qomsan traced back the progression of the law, or rather “deterioration,” of it.
  • aromo0 on 10 Feb 16
     
    Egypt has a marriage law that requires foreign men to pay a set amount to the woman's family in order to marry her. This is now being seen as a legalized form of prostitution where the women gets nothing but a divorce.
ajonesn

The Story Behind Child Brides in Egypt | Egyptian Streets - 0 views

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child brides egypt

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  • ajonesn on 16 Feb 15
     
    UNCIEF defines marriage under the age of eighteen as child marriage. A survey published by the National Council for Women illustrated that in Egypt the percentage of girls being married before the age of 18.
yperez2

Life in Modern Cairo - 0 views

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  • yperez2 on 05 Apr 15
     
    This article presents various things about Cairo, Egypt. Among them are education, marriage, customs and traditions in marriage, birth as well as death.
ajonesn

How I escaped forced marriage in Egypt - YouTube - 0 views

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forced marriage egypt youtube

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  • ajonesn on 13 Apr 15
     
    This is a nice video that shows the journey of a young female in Egypt. She escaped her own personal hell of what would have been arranged marriage after years of abuse.
aromo0

Match Made in Cairo « The Majalla Magazine - 0 views

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women egypt marriage arranged

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  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Women in Egypt experience arranged marriages because there is a stigma around unmarried women. The older a women is the worse the stigma.
  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Women in Egypt experience arranged marriages because there is a stigma around unmarried women. The older a women is the worse the stigma.
diamond03

Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls - 0 views

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female genital cutting egyptian

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      diamond03 on 06 Oct 14
       
      This is so strange and taboo. 
  • fundamental violation of women’s and girls’ rights
  • 50% or highe
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  • female circumcisio
  • harmful physical, psychological and human rights consequences has led to the use of the term “female genital mutilation
  • women who have undergone FGC do not consider themselves to be mutilated and have become offended by the term “FGM”
  • no definitive evidence documenting when or why this ritual began
  • practised in ancient Egypt as a sign of distinction, while others hypothesize its origin in ancient Greece, Rome, Pre-Islamic Arabia and the Tsarist Russian Federation.
  • 97% of married women surveyed experienced FGC.3
  • 94.6% of married women had been exposed to FGC and 69.1% of those women agreed to carry out FGC on their daughters
  • 41% of female students in primary, preparatory and secondary schools had been exposed to FGC.
  • females interviewed was 38 816. The prevalence of FGC among schoolgirls was 50.3%. The prevalence of FGC was 46.2% in government urban schools, 9.2% in private urban schools and 61.7% in rural schools.
  • FGC has remained a common practice in the countries where it has traditionally been performed.4
  • Egypt are type I (commonly referred to as clitoridectomy) and type II (commonly referred to as excision).5 In Africa, the most common type of FGC is type II (excision of the clitoris and the labia minor) which accounts for up to 80% of all cases.6 I
  • In 1995, a ministerial decree forbade the practice and made it punishable by fine and imprisonment
  • The difference in the prevalence rates of FGC is mainly due to educational status in both rural and urban areas
  • There is an obvious negative correlation between the female’s parents’ education and the practice of FGC
  • Parents with low or no education are the most likely to have circumcised their daughters with prevalence rates ranging between 59.5% and 65.1%
  • higher degrees of education are the least likely to have their daughters circumcised and the prevalence rate ranged between 19.5% and 22.2%.
  • age at which FGC is performed on girls varies
  • 4 and 12 years old
  • the procedure may be carried out shortly after birth to some time before the age of marriage.6
  • some girls mentioned that they were circumcised soon after birth, during the neonatal period.
  • . In Egypt, in the past, the majority of FGC procedures were performed by traditional midwives, called dayas. However, according to the Demographic and Health Survey (1995),16 the number of
  • An immediate effect of the procedure is pain because FGC is often carried out without anaesthesia.
  • Short-term complications, such as severe bleeding which can lead to shock or death
  • include infection because of unsanitary operating conditions, and significant psychological and psychosexual consequences of FGC
  • complications (early and late) such as severe pain, bleeding, incontinence, infections, mental health problems, sexual problems, primary infertility and difficult labour with high episiotomy rate. In addition, the repetitive use of the same instruments on several girls without sterilization can cause the spread of HIV and Hepatitis B and C.
  • Fathers played minor roles as decision-makers for the procedure (9.4%
  • mothers are the main decision-makers for the procedure of FGC (65.2%)
  • circumcision is an important religious tradition (33.4%)
  • religious tradition is still the most important reason for performing FGC in Egypt,
  • In these surveys, 72% of ever-married women reported that circumcision is an important part of religious tradition and about two-thirds of the women had the impression that the husband prefers his wife to be circumcised
  • one-third of ever-married women cited cleanliness as a reason while a small number saw it as a way to prevent promiscuity before marriage.
  • milies refuse to accept women who have not undergone FGC as marriage partners
  • Around 12% of girls believed that there is no religious support for circumcision.
  • . It is an issue that demands a collaborative approach involving health professionals, religious leaders, educationalists and nongovernmental organizations.
  • partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia
  • Female genital cutting (FGC
  • Past issues Information for contributors Editorial members How to order About the Bulletin Disclaimer Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls
  • 100 and 130
  • cultural or other non-therapeutic reason
  • 28 African countries and the Middle East have been subjected to FGC.2
  • million girls and women
  • micklethwait on 07 Oct 14
     
    This is such a controversial topic. I saw a reference to it recently (was it possibly something that was brought up in the Bill Maher/Ben Affleck dust-up?) that pointed out that the practice is almost unheard of outside of central and northeastern Africa, with a few small pockets in Iraq and the Gulf.
kkerby223

A Saudi Princess Reveals Her Life of Hell - 0 views

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saudi princess reveals life torture forced marriage

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  • kkerby223 on 10 Mar 15
     
    This article was mind blowing for me. It is a report of the treatment of King Abdullah's daughters. It makes me wonder where they are now. I will try to do further research. It all started with a forced marriage and led to the ongoing torture of 4 daughters.
kkerby223

A Saudi Story of Marriage and Divorce - 0 views

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married divorce abuse child gender

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  • kkerby223 on 03 Apr 15
     
    This link tells the story of a woman named Salma. Salma was sold at the age of 13 to an elderly man. She was then abused for 17 years and then divorced, the ex husband taking the children. This is one example of gender inequality and lack of a decent legal system and protective laws. I am not saying that all marriages are bad but stores such as this are horrendous and actions should be taken to prevent it from happening in the future.
ajonesn

Why Divorce is Difficult for Egyptian Women - 0 views

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  • ajonesn on 23 Mar 15
     
    A good article with a real life story and examples into the life of an unhappy Egyptian woman, stuck in a marriage that she does not want to be in.
  • ajonesn on 23 Mar 15
     
    A good article with a real life story and examples into the life of an unhappy Egyptian woman, stuck in a marriage that she does not want to be in.
mcooka

61.1% of Moroccan Students in Favor of Sex Education in High Schools - 0 views

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sex education morocco middle east

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  • The survey focused on “youth identity,” and the relation to sexuality
  • lthough 61.1% of the polled students expressed their support for sex education in high schools, 70% of Moroccan students agree that sexual intercourse before marriage is “immoral.
  • ccording to Hakim Hdidou, consultant and director of The Survey Project, the survey polls have lasted 10 months, and have targeted 5,236 students in private and public high schools, in urban and rural areas of all the regions of Morocco.
  • mcooka on 07 Apr 16
     
    This article looked at the students view  on sex education in Morocco. 61% of students feel that there should be sex education in schools. 70% of students believed sex before marriage is immoral. This is an article which looks at how education and culture can clash.
sambofoster

Syrian women fear abuse during marriage - but divorce frightens as much - 0 views

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Women divorce abuse

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  • sambofoster on 23 Mar 16
     
    The night after their wedding, Eren stood over Nur in a dusky Mediterranean hotel, "You are old enough! Get ready to fuck or I will send you back to the camp!" A friend of Eren's married a Syrian woman last year who he said was pious and subservient.
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