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COMPANY PROFILE: Marriages that make millions

By Heba Saleh

Published: December 11 2006 16:33 | Last updated: December 11 2006 16:33

It was the washing machine that broke Hassan’s engagement. His fiancee insisted that he should buy a new washing machine, but the young accountant argued that neither his small salary of just under $100 a month nor his parents’ meagre savings could be made to stretch that far.

“We spent hours talking to her family, but in the end it was no use,” says Samah, Hassan’s mother.

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