This essay focuses on recent divorce reforms in Egypt (2000) and Morocco (2004), with equal attention to the positions of men and women who end their marriages. Whereas in Egypt, non-consensual, no-fault divorce reform (khul‘) is open only to women, in Morocco, another form of non-consensual, no-fault divorce, shiqāq, is open to both women and men, with men using it almost as frequently as women. Based on legal analysis and anthropological fieldwork, I consider first how men and women navigate rights and duties in divorce and then examine the differences between the two countries in the way men and women try to obtain divorce. I conclude that when both men and women are given opportunities for non-consensual, no fault divorce, highly gender-specific divorce regimes, such as the ṭalāq and taṭlīq, quickly lose their popularity

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埃及和摩洛哥的离婚改革：男人和女人的权利和义务

本文重点关注埃及（2000 年）和摩洛哥（2004 年）最近的离婚改革，同样关注结束婚姻的男性和女性的地位。在埃及，非自愿、无过错离婚改革 (khul') 仅对女性开放，而在摩洛哥，另一种非自愿、无过错离婚形式 shiqāq 对男性和女性都开放几乎和女性一样频繁地使用它。基于法律分析和人类学田野调查，我首先考虑男性和女性如何在离婚中处理权利和义务，然后考察两国在男性和女性试图离婚的方式上的差异。我的结论是，当男人和女人都有机会进行非自愿、无过错离婚时，高度特定性别的离婚制度，如 ṭalāq 和 taṭlīq，很快就会失去人气