Marriage

Its Either Me or the Settlements: A Marriage on the Rocks?

by SR Editor March 25, 2010

By Noura Erakat* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Recurring Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu met with President Obama in Washington this week and, without flinching, attributed the stalled peace process to the U.S. Administration’s concern with illegal settlements and not to Israel’s violation of the peace process’s terms, which unequivocally mandate the cessation of settlement [...]

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Spinsters World & Women Rights in Arab Land

by Haitham Sabbah June 23, 2006

It’s women again! A report published by Khaleej Times said that a survey conducted by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Planning reveals a shocking number of “spinsters” across Saudi Arabia. To be precise, the exact number of the unmarried females has been recorded at 1,529,418. Now from the last census I could find, Saudi population has [...]

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Marriage Offer!

by Haitham Sabbah May 7, 2006

No… not me, I’m taken ;-) [Hat tip: Syed] [13:20:49] anonym says: hi [13:20:54] anonym says: no microphone [13:20:56] Responder says: hello [13:21:02] anonym says: are you interesting in my offer? [13:21:07] anonym says: are you interesting in my offer? [13:21:14] Responder says: what is the offer [13:21:17] anonym says: I offer the paper marriage [...]

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Jordanians Look for Love with Help from Matchmakers

by Haitham Sabbah May 5, 2006

Arranged marriages are not unusual in much of the Arab world. But young Jordanians are starting to reject that tradition, and instead look to find a mate on their own. A marriage-brokering agency has opened in Irbid, about an hour north of the capital of Amman, to help provide an alternative to traditional marriages, NPR [...]

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Apostate: Keep Clothes on for Sex

by Haitham Sabbah January 10, 2006

Feeling horny? Grab your clothes and keep your eyes off your partner’s privates! Cairo – An Egyptian cleric’s controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars. According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University’s faculty of Sharia [...]

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Honor Killing Pass

by Haitham Sabbah October 14, 2005

A Jordanian man who murdered his sister for being a prostitute got a reduced jail sentence because he killed her in a “fit of rage”, the Jordan Times reported on Wednesday. The Criminal Court has sentenced a 26-year-old shepherd to six months in prison for the murder of his older sister in April 2005. When [...]

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Tourist Marriage in Yemen, another form of Prostitution in the Gulf!

by Haitham Sabbah September 11, 2005

The latest victims of the prostitution club in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen!! Tourist marriage in Yemen By Nabil Al-Osaidi For Yemen Times Rua’a, a seventeen-year-old secondary school student in Ibb, used to be dodged by a new comer from one of the neighboring countries, until he succeeded to convince her to marry him. Then she [...]

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Mesyaf (Summer Holiday) Marriage, New form of Prostitution in Saudi Arabia!

by Haitham Sabbah June 9, 2005

No, I’m not kidding. Alarabiya reported this… marriage (in Arabic) and here is my translation to part of the article, followed by my comments: After Almesyar marriage, blood, cassette, secret, on home, and the pleasure marriage, lately in Saudi Arabia a new form of weird ways of marriage is spreading called “Almesyaf Marriage” (Summer Holiday [...]

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Arab youths avoid arranged marriage with Web spouses

by Haitham Sabbah May 22, 2005

“Some conservative families don’t allow their daughters to meet strangers. But if you meet in cyberspace, technically you are not breaking any religious or cultural norms as you are not physically alone with that person.” Arab and Muslim online surfers still feel embarrassed about cyber-searches for a spouse. Many of those who had success were [...]

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Muta’a

by Haitham Sabbah May 5, 2005

Pleasure marriages, outlawed under Saddam Hussein, have begun to flourish again. “Al-Zaidi hopes to soon finalize his third muta’a, or “pleasure marriage,” with a green-eyed neighbor. This time, he talks about it openly and with obvious relish. Even so, he says, he probably still won’t tell his wife.” At least Saddam did one right thing!

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