Could a New Civil Law Unify a Divided Society?
Mona Alami – IPS - Friday, 27 January 2011 (originally published 25 Jan)
BEIRUT, Jan 25, 2012 (IPS) – Odette Klysinska, a Catholic French native, sits in her living room in an affluent neighbourhood in Beirut, clutching her will in one hand, shocked to learn that it is no longer legally valid in the country she now calls home.
Klysinska is married to a Druze – a member of Lebanon’s minority religious community – and is suffering the brunt of the country’s ‘personal law status’, which prohibits Catholics, Sunnis and Shiites from bequeathing possessions or property to offspring of different faiths.
“How can a mother be banned from providing for her own children in death? It’s inconceivable,” she told IPS in disbelief . . .
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