Dating Game: Gaza style

Gaza Bubbles with Weddings

In the crisp fourth floor office of Fahmi al-Atiri's Islamic dating agency in Gaza, he explains that polygamous marriages were increasingly popular - a sign of fertility and status.

After all, Gaza's interior minister had six wives, though he had to let two of them go.

For the sake of appearances, Atiri felt obliged to set a good example, though, in a nod to gender equality had let his first wife select his second.
(Economist-UK)
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