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Al-Ahram Weekly 13 - 19 January 2000 Issue No. 464 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 13 - 19 January 2000 Issue No. 464
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As the procedural draft Personal Status law is prepared for presentation to the People's Assembly, Al-Ahram Weekly offers insight into the debates surrounding the law, the difficulties women have encountered in wresting control of their lives from a patriarchal system, and the flexibility that once characterised the legal system in which they manoeuvred One step forward, a hundred to go
The draft law that aims to speed up personal status litigation is expected to be discussed in parliament next week, but it has already opened up a Pandora's box of power struggles, reports Mariz TadrosAmatter of mistrust
Once more, the Personal Status Law that regulates such matters as marriage, divorce, child custody and alimony is being reconsidered. Fayza Hassan examines past struggles and future prospectsConditional surrenders
Gender relations, including matters pertaining to personal status, have not always been what they are today. Amina Elbendary discovers a far more flexible past
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