Egyptian students get a lesson about marriage

Lessons about marriage will now be part of the curriculum at Egyptian universities. That happens in command of the government. Students learn more about the wedding and how they are the best partner to choose. So will the Egyptian government divorces occur.

The lessons are accompanied by a special program, educational plays and YouTube videos. It contains scenes re-enacted that may also occur in a real marriage: a man comes home from work and his wife is on the brush. The man of the house reacts horrified because the food was not on the table. “The apartment looks like a dump", shouted the man. “I went today to work, and I picked up the kids after school”, responds the woman in the sketch. the

After the view of the sketch points the professor to ensure that women are not all household tasks. “That's not her duty,” said Salah Ahmed, a professor at the university in Cairo. “Muhammad the prophet helped his wife also. His example should be followed." the

Mawadda
The project bears the name Mawadda which stands for affection, and is for now only a test. From 2020 onwards, the year of 800,000 Egyptian young people by the project be reached. Also, various churches and the important Al-Azhar mosque are involved in the project. the

Number of partitions
The plan stems from the concerns of the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about the growing number of divorces in Egypt. The last known figures on divorce in the North African country stems from 2017. Then, 198.000 couples to end their marriage, 3.2 percent more than the year before.