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Camilo Gómez-Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern history at the American University in Cairo. He works on the historical development and interaction of Islamic law and society.
Women, Shari‘a, and Personal Status Law Reform in Egypt after the Revolution
Like almost everything else during the uncertain period of the transitional government, the future of personal status law reform is at a crossroads in Egypt. The new constitution (assuming one will exist)[1] may technically have little direct impact on how the country’s laws affect women’s lives, but the legislative process that emerges thereafter most certainly will.
