Al-Ahram Weekly | Features

On the occasion of International Woman's Day, celebrated on 8 March, Al-Ahram Weekly delves into personal status issues in Egypt and Turkey as well as new initiatives to enhance awareness regarding FGM

What price freedom?
Two years ago, women were granted the right to instigate unilateral khul' divorce. It was supposed to change the face of Egyptian family life. However the results, Mariz Tadros discovers, have confounded all predictions

Learning to handle marriage
"Go to a total stranger and pour out my marital troubles? No way!" Rana Allam probes the reaction to marriage counselling -- a relatively new service in Egypt

Two heads are better then one
Margot Badran writes from Turkey on the implications of the recent reform of the 1926 Civil Code on women's rights in marriage and divorce

Proud to be different
NGOs are preaching deviance in the communities in which they are active. Mariz Tadros finds out why

Diary of a married woman
I woke up one day and I did not recognise myself; I looked in the mirror and saw someone else entirely. Who is this? What happened to me? I got married five years ago to a decent, respectable man. I have twin daughters, as cute as any mother could be blessed with.

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 7 - 13 March 2002 Issue No.576
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