Nationality and Cases of Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa territorial connections, it is worth pointing out that neither of the provisions concerned explicitly requires the father to speak Arabic or be a Muslim, but rather it is sufficient that he is from a country where this is the norm. It is, furthermore, of interest to note that birth on state territory generates an entitlement to facilitated naturalisation under a number of MENA nationality laws. Egypt, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia and Yemen all provide for different conditions to be met by someone born in the country who is seeking to naturalise, as opposed to someone who has immigrated subsequently.114 3.1.3. Safeguards for otherwise stateless children States are, in principle, free to set the conditions for acquisition of nationality, including by choosing whether to grant nationality at birth on the basis of the jus sanguinis or jus soli doctrine, or a mixture of the two.115 However, international law sets certain limits to this freedom, including where it provides that every child has the right to acquire a nationality. The child’s right to a nationality is recognised in several major 114 - See Table 8. 115 - Article 1 of the 1930 Hague Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws. 90