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Department

Cairo Papers in Social Science

Program

Cairo Papers in Social Science

Abstract

Many minds, multiple energies and much cooperation has gone into the creation and production of this monograph. Principally it is the outcome of a seminar on the theme of "Law and Social Change: Problems and Challenges" which was organized and co-sponsored within the general framework of the Open University Seminar Series by the Department of Sociology-Anthropology-Psychology of the American University in Cairo and the National Center for Sociological and Criminological Research. The Open University Seminar, held annually, is a forum through which members of the AUC community and interested persons from the larger Egyptian community can come together to express their views, share their ideas and knowledge and increase their understanding of and about relevant issues selected for discussion in the seminar during a particular year. The first Open University Seminar Series was inaugurated in the spring of 1975 by Cynthia Nelson t founder of the series,and specifically addressed the issue of the impact of the Egyptian feminist movement on the status of women in Egypt, the topic being selected to coincide with efforts that were developing on a national level in Egypt to commemorate 1975 as International Women' s Year. Each successive year has followed with the selection of a specific theme that links women to the processes of social change and development within contemporary Egyptian society; in 1976 Women, Health and Development", which subsequently appeared as Monograph One of Volume One of THE CAIRO PAPERS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (Nelson, 1977), and in 1977, 11 Women, Work and Social Transformation".

Publication Date

1979

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Law and Social Change in Contemporary Egypt

Editors

Cynthia Nelson & Klaus Friedrich Koch

ISBN

NA

Publisher

American University in Cairo Press

City

Cairo

First Page

97

Last Page

115

Series

Cairo Papers in Social Science 2(4)

Keywords

Law, regulation, social change, Modern, Egypt, justical institution, culture heritage

Disciplines

Family Law | Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law | Law and Gender | Legal Studies | Near and Middle Eastern Studies | Sociology

Changing the Law on Personal Status within a Liberal Interpretation of the Sharia

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