“Lowered number of marriage contracts has been witnessed since the outbreak of the coronavirus in Egypt,” says an official at the Marriage Registration Authority.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe number of marriage contracts witnessed a noticeable decrease due to the coronavirus, as many women refuse to marry without holding a marriage ceremony,\u201d said Head of the Official Marriage Registration Authority Ibrahim Selim.<\/p>\n
He further explained that this decline has negatively affected life and families of the officials authorized to perform marriage ceremonies (known in Arabic as ma\u2019zoun), who do not a fixed wage or monthly salary due to the low turnout.<\/p>\n
People working as ma\u2019zouns cannot do another job at the same time like assuming a governmental position, work as lawyers, or teachers, as per the law regulating their work. \u201cThat\u2019s why most ma\u2019zouns suffer from difficult economic conditions,\u201d according to Selim.<\/p>\n
He also said that there is no syndicate for ma\u2019zouns to act as a legal umbrella for them, and provide them with financial aids during the crisis, adding that a draft law for the syndicate is still being discussed at the Parliament.<\/p>\n
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“Lowered number of marriage contracts has been witnessed since the outbreak of the coronavirus in Egypt,” says an official at the Marriage Registration Authority. \u201cThe number of marriage contracts witnessed a noticeable decrease due to the coronavirus, as many women refuse to marry without holding a marriage ceremony,\u201d said Head of the Official Marriage Registration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":175933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7863],"tags":[56107,2484,59298,59299],"class_list":["post-175932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-section","tag-covid-19","tag-egypt","tag-ibrahim-selim","tag-mazouns"],"yoast_head":"\n