Assertion: cousin marriage | /r/CapableOf | account 35 percent of marriages
Facets:
value: than in other parts of egypt
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In Egypt cousin marriage may have been even more prevalent than in Arabia in past periods, with one source from the 1830s observing that it was common among Egyptian Arabs and native Egyptian Muslims in villages within Egypt but less so in Cairo where first cousin marriage accounts 35 percent of marriages in Cairo than in other parts of Egypt.