For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns under British rule in the early twentieth century.
"Kholoussy joins together Arabic press accounts and Islamic court documents in union to present a portrait of marriage and its discontents in modern Egypt. Demonstrating that bachelors-not single women-stoked the anxiety of Egyptians, she persuasively connects the marriage crisis to concerns about national independence. For Better, For Worse establishes marriage as an engaging topic of historical inquiry. A blissful read."
