Marriage and Family in the East: Russian view

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of marriage and family relations in the middle East. It is based on the reflections of a Russian woman who lived for many years in a marriage with a Syrian citizen. The Russian woman’s view on different aspects of the phenomenon of the Eastern family, ways of integrating a foreign woman into Eastern society, taking place against the background of the activation of the processes of feminization of modern Western and neighboring societies, and the diversity of forms of emancipation of women.