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Section 4 provided for retention of American citizenship by formerly alien women who had acquired citizenship by marriage to an American after the termination of their marriages. Women residing in the US automatically retained their American citizenship if they did not explicitly renounce; women residing abroad had the option to retain American ...
[24] Haddad and state that "Muhammad granted women rights and privileges in the sphere of family life, marriage, education, and economic endeavors, which all together help improve women's status in society." [25] Education is an important area of progress for Arab women as it will significantly help them advance in their path to equality. [26]
For Arab women, Islam included the prohibition of female infanticide and recognizing women's full personhood. [72] Women generally gained greater rights than women in pre-Islamic Arabia [73] [74] and medieval Europe. [75] Women were not accorded such legal status in other cultures until centuries later. [76]
Marriage by Mahr was the standard marriage practice. These marriages consisted of the groom or groom's father paying the bride an amount, indicating that he was capable of supporting her financially after the marriage. With the spread of Islam, Mahr became Fard, meaning "obligatory" in Islamic law. [2]
The Commission recommended to the United Nations Economic and Social Council that legislation be drafted to give women equal rights as set out in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [7] The Convention on the Nationality of Married Women entered into force on 11 August 1958. As of 2013, the convention has been ratified by 74 ...
Arab American Heritage Month is intended to commemorate and honor the achievements of the some of the roughly 3.7 million members of the community residing in the U.S. But this year, many Arab ...
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) states that it is "the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States." [ 1 ] According to its webpage, it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and has a national network of chapters [ 2 ] and members in all 50 states.