Jul 29, 2014 27 min

Yemen's Swap Marriages

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2014 Hosted by BBC World Service

‘I’ll marry your sister if you marry mine. And if you divorce my sister, I’ll divorce yours.’ That is Yemen’s ‘Shegar’, or swap marriage, an agreement between two men to marry each other’s sisters, thereby removing the need for expensive dowry payments. But the agreement also entails that if one marriage fails, the other couple must separate as well - even if they are happy.

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