Arab League, DIFI launch joint report on marital relationships in Arab world
Published: 3 July 2024
Qatar News Agency
Doha
The Arab League Secretariat General launched together with the Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), a Qatar Foundation affiliate, the Joint Report on “Evaluating Marital Relationships during the First Five Years of Marriage in the Arab World” at an event in Cairo, lasting over three days.
The event was held with the participation of Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Social Affairs Sector at the Arab League Ambassador Haifa Abu Ghazaleh, Executive Director of DIFI Dr. Sharifa Al Emadi, and Permanent Representative of Qatar to the Arab League Tariq Ali Faraj Al Ansari, along with the representatives of member state delegations to the Arab League, and a lineup of experts and specialists.
In her speech at the opening session, Dr. Sharifa Al Emadi said that marriage is a solid covenant out of which the building blocks of society and the nation emerge, regulating social ties and family relations, as well as promoting solidarity and compassion, adding that spouses form a single soul united in love and compassion under one roof.
Al Emadi said that in partnership with the Arab League, DIFI launched back in 2019, a book on the status of marriage in the Arab World, which is the first of its kind in comprehensively covering all aspects of marriage in the Arab region, including marital choice, traditional and modern marriage patterns, age and marriage, marital relationships, and the intersection of marriage with educational, economic, and labor systems, among other analytical aspects.
The Executive Director of DIFI noted that it was imperative to develop a scientific and accurate understanding of marital relationships, particularly with regards to factors contributing to divorce in the early years of marriage, but also to consider marriage’s strength and resilience factors Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Social Affairs Sector at the Arab League Ambassador Haifa Abu Ghazaleh highlighted the report’s success in identifying the success factors and challenges to marriage in the Arab world, as well as recommending intervention programs to deal with marital issues during the early years of marriage.
