"Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story" is a powerful indictment of misogyny that overturns stereotypes about Egypt through the dramatic stories women recount on a television show. By The Associated Press A ...

The makers of an Egyptian film exploring the subjugation of women across the Middle East say they have won widespread praise as well as deeply personal criticism since the movie was released.

Word from Cannes last spring was that as the Portuguese director Miguel Gomes unveiled the first part of his genre-defying Arabian Nights trilogy, the cognoscenti divided into two categories: One ...

Even after a thousand nights, Scheherazade still has a lot of stories to tell: of brewing beer in Tehran, of being reduced to one's Afghan roots, of the impenetrability of German bureaucracy (which ...

In the legend that forms the framing device of the Persian collection of tales known as One Thousand And One Nights, Scheherazade is a triumphant underdog, a resourceful woman who survives by ...

Though treating women’s oppression as a political issue isn’t exactly new, the clarity with which it’s spelled out in “Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story” is both bold and brave. Together with scribe ...

Hebba is a glamorous talk-show host who likes peering into the souls of the women of Cairo, making her husband – an ambitious newspaper-man hoping to secure the editorship of Egypt’s national paper – ...

Yousry Nasrallah, a former screenwriter for Youssef Chahine and a successful director in his own right, achieves something rare with this Egyptian comedy drama (2009): an urgent political statement ...