Divorced last year, 30-year-old Amina is slowly rebuilding her confidence. During the 10 years of her marriage, the mother of three says her husband tried to force her to accept his taking another wife. She resisted, even though he said that it was the right thing to do in Islam, their shared religion. “There was ...…
KUWAIT: Fatima, in her mid-forties is a mother of three sons, all of whom are adults now. Fatima got married to the father of her children when she was in her early twenties. They had an unsteady married life; her husband married a second wife ten years into their marriage and deserted her for over ...…
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A Saudi court has sentenced an employee of the kingdom’s religious police to 120 lashes for marrying six women. The man said he was not educated enough to know that Islam does not allow men to marry more than four women at any one time, said an official at Ahad al-Massarha court in the southern ...…
Nairobi — South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has been in the news lately for many wrong reasons. JZ, as he is popularly known, is reported to have sired a love child with a divorcee. What is seen as a breach of family trust has raised questions about Zuma’s personal judgement and whether he has the ...…
Cultural Expert and Lecturer Ndela Ntshangase, at the University of Kula-Zulu Natal in South Africa, speaks about polygamy. Ntshangase says polygamy is selfLESSness in practice. Listen to Audio: Polygamy is Teamwork . See photo of Jacob Zuma (President of South Africa) and his wives. Audio provided by ”Times Live Media”- 2/5/10…
GAZA, March 24 (Xinhua) — The Islamic Hamas movement has encouraged Gaza men to marry “a widow of a martyr” with a reward of 3,000 U.S. dollars for each, but the project sparked criticism by pro-women groups, according to a Hamas women activist Tuesday. Nadia Nasser told the press that the cash reward ” is ...…
Zuma weds for fifth time Wearing leopard skins and carrying a Zulu shield, President Jacob Zuma on Monday married for the fifth time, in a traditional ceremony in his remote hometown. The 67-year-old and his new bride, Thobeka Mabhija, 30 years his junior, danced in an open field at his homestead in Nkandla, a village ...…
Sidelights: Wife seeks police help to stop man from taking second wife MAKKAH: Polygamy (for men) is legal in Saudi Arabia, but it’s no secret that many women are adverse to the idea of sharing a husband (and a husband’s resources) with another (often younger) woman. Some ladies will go to great lengths to impede ...…
Thirty-two-year-old Hagar Gouda is a divorcée. Married in her mid-twenties, she gave birth to a baby boy and divorced her husband three years later. She has spent the past six years raising her son and looking for a husband. So far, she has not found a man she likes well enough who is willing to ...…
