Added: Jul 23, 2008
From: montybenardo
Duration: 9:54
Women of the Holy Kingdom is filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid's compelling and personal report into the emerging women's movement in Saudi Arabia.In Saudi Arabia, women need permission from their male guardians to study, work and travel. They are also forbidden to drive and to mix with men in public. Now, a growing number of Saudi women are challenging these traditions and are clamouring for more rights.Obaid documents the emerging women's movement and also interviews religious clerics and young working mothers who denounce change and label the women's movement as immoral.She travels across Saudi Arabia to explore why the Muslim religion's holiest land treats half its population as second-class citizens. From segregated restaurants to banks and shopping malls Women of the Holy Kingdom provides a rare look at the life of Saudi women.From all-women factories to a women's conference and a gathering of intellectuals, the program also provides an unprecedented look at the faces behind the emerging women's movement.Obaid meets Nadia Bakhurji, the first Saudi woman to announce her candidacy for the country's new local elections. She also gets access to young female students at an all-women's university who make it very clear what rights they want in the future.Obaid also meets young women who embrace the Islamic traditions that so many in the West can't understand and won't tolerate.Women of the Holy Kingdom takes you on an eye-opening journey across the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to show you places and faces rarely seen in the West.
Channel: News
Tags: allah arabia civil crusade documentary feminist god holy immoral iran iraq islam kingdom marriage misogyny mohamed moral mother muslim obaid of part religion rights saudi segregation sharia sharmeen syria the two women
Rating: 3.40 (5 ratings) Views: 1284' favoriteCount='11 Comments: 1
terajasoos Says:
Aug 19, 2008 - y is naimah hiding her face in shame? she just wanted out of an abusive and unhealthy marraige, its not like she commited zana but da stigma attached to divorce women in saudi is very strong and repressive---what a shame.