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Introduction / Baudouin Dupret and Maaike Voorhoeve - Discourses on the Law - 1. 'She brings up healthy children for the homeland' : morality discourses in Yemeni legal debates / Susanne Dahlgren - 2. Reclaiming changes within the community public sphere : Druze women's activism, personal status law and the quest for Lebanese multiple citizenship / Massimo di Ricco - 3. What a focus on 'Family' means in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Arzoo Osanloo - 4. Rethinking the difference between formal and informal marriages in Egypt / Nadia Sonneveld - Discourses of the Law - 5. Waiting to win : family disputes, court reform, and the ethnography of delay / Christine Hegel-Gantarella - 6. Divorce practices in Muslim and Christian courts in Syria / Esther van Eijk - 7. Maktub : an ethnography of evidence in a Tunisian divorce court / Sarah Vincent-Grosso - 8. Judicial discretion in Tunisian personal status law / Maaike Voorhoeve.