At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Egyptian women gained
the unique right to divorce their husbands unilaterally through a
procedure called khul'. This has been a controversial application;
notwithstanding attempts to present the law as being grounded in
Islamic law, opponents claim that khul' is a privileged women's
law, and a western conspiracy aimed at destroying Egyptian family
life and, by extension, Egyptian society.
In Khul' Divorce in Egypt, Nadia Sonneveld explores the nature of
the public debates-including the portrayal of khul' in films and
cartoons-while an examination of the application of khul' in the
courts and everyday life relates and compares this debate to the
actual implementation of the procedure. She makes it clear that the
points of controversy bear little resemblance to the lives of the
lower-middle-class women who apply for khul'; they merely reflect
profound changes in the institutions of marriage and family.
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