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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Alessandra Bajec

UNCOVERED: Will inheritance equality ever be up for debate in tunisia | History Defined

A woman pours water on herself to cool off during a protest by supporters of Tunisia's Salvation Front opposition coalition against President Kais Saied in Tunis on July 25, 2023, as they marked two years since Saied began amassing government power for himself [Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters]

Mariem Tangour, 66, a retired civil servant from the Tunisian port city of Sfax, was deprived of her inheritance two months before she was even born.

Her father had signed a document granting the full inheritance he would leave behind to her two brothers, leaving nothing to Tangour, her three sisters and their mother.

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