Research and Reports

The journal aims to provide a home for DIFI’s proceedings and original research on all aspects of family research, including migration, dignity, parental and child rights, and marriage – particularly in the Arab world. Volumes from 2013-2015 which provide a wide range of articles including “Adolescents in Arab countries: Health statistics and social context”, “The tempo and intensity of marriage in the Arab region: Key challenges and their implications”, “The political dimensions of fertility decrease and family transformation in the Arab context”, and “In majaalis al-hareem: the complex professional and personal choices of Qatari women” among others.

• Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer Adolescents in Arab countries: Health statistics and social context
• Hoda Rashad The tempo and intensity of marriage in the Arab region: Key challenges and their implications
• Youssef Courbage The political dimensions of fertility decrease and family transformation in the Arab context
• Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Christina Paschyn, Sadia Mir, Kirsten Pike, Tanya Kane In majaalis al-hareem: The complex professional and personal choices of Qatari women
• Kristen Hope, Yann Colliou Situating the best interests of the child in community-based arbitration of marriage disputes: Reflections from a pilot intervention of Terre des Hommes Foundation in Assiut, Egypt
• Laura Ferrero “Marriage with an absentee:” Marital practices in an era of great mobility
• Paola Gandolfi Multiple families in changing societies in the Maghreb: The case of Morocco
• Susan Roylance, Marcia Barlow Policies affecting Arab family formation
• Shafqat Shehzad Socioeconomic, demographic, housing and health conditions of Qatari women by status of marriage and implications for family polices