CChapter 3: Comparative analysis of nationality laws (and in Tunisia also the child’s paternal grandfather) were also born in the country. Oman has a similar provision, but in addition to having been born in Oman, the child’s father must also be stateless.110 Bahrain’s law also provides for conferral of nationality to a child born in Bahrain, if his or her stateless father was also born in Bahrain, but the father must also have made Bahrain his place of permanent residence.111 In Iraq, the law also requires that the child and his or her father were both born in the country, but it provides for a discretionary application procedure rather than automatic conferral of nationality. The Egyptian provision is similar but has the further requirement that the father originate from a country in which Arabic is the principal language and Islam the religion.112 Lastly, in Morocco the law has a simpler non-discretionary registration procedure attached to its own double jus soli provision. It requires either that the father was also born in Morocco and that he originate from an Arabic-speaking Muslim country, or that both parents were born in Morocco and remain permanent residents there.113 Although both the Egyptian and Moroccan laws have added some criteria of “belonging” alongside the familial and 110 111 112 113 - Article 1(4), Omani Nationality Law, 1962. Article 5(a), Bahraini Citizenship Act, 1963. Article 4(3), Law No. 26 concerning Egyptian Nationality, 1975. Article 9(1), Moroccan Nationality Law (Decre No. 1-58-250), 1958. 89