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Samia is a 17-year-old girl married to 20-year-old Hani. Both are Shiite Muslims living with Hani’s parents in one of the quarters of a Lebanese city. The two are barely literate, and both come from lower-class families. Hani works as a heavy machine operator for a local construction company. After three years of work, his parents thought he was making enough money to start a family of his own. So his mother went shopping for an appropriate bride: a beautiful, teenage girl from a humble family who was used to household chores and willing to live with the family in their household. From the several candidates she identified, the mother picked Samia as the prospective bride.
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Faour, M. (2003). A Sexually Demanding Husband and a Domineering Mother-In-Law. In: Faure, G.O. (eds) How People Negotiate. Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0989-8_31
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