Somali novelist Farah tells of a young woman from a humble background seeking personal independence at the time of Somalia's independence from Italy.

An Australian writer living in Egypt sets out to understand the appeal of conservative Islam among young, educated women. The book is an expose of the worst examples of gender inequality and the oppression of women.

Set in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, this film tells the story of a Muslim family attempting to unite their daughter in marriage to a Syrian man. Meanwhile, a married sister of the bride must come to terms with her tradition-bound husband.

An American writer in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban discovers that, despite claims to the contrary, little has changed for many of the women who live there.

Several Iranian women gather in this graphic-novel style book to gossip and tell their stories.

The author, from Sweden, becomes acquainted with the women of a family in post-Taliban Afghanistan, revealing their restricted lives and limited options.

This revealing and sometimes amusing documentary follows the efforts of several western women to open a beauty school in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the days following the oppressive Taliban regime. Here the feminist assumptions of the school's instructors collide with the realities of life for women in a more conservative Islamic culture.

This film tells the story of a woman's search for her sister in war-torn Afghanistan. Focuses on the plight of refugees and casualities of war.

This is the story of a Jewish family living in Tehran at the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, told through the perspective of their young, precocious daughter.

An Iranian woman, living in America, returns to Iran to reconnect with her family.

Norwegian journalist describes her assignment in Baghdad during the days leading up to the Iraq War and the "shock and awe" invasion of the American forces. Includes description of the nightly bombing, the collapse of the Saddam government, and the arrival of American troops.

Set in modern-day Iran, this documentary-style portrayal of the lives of four women on the streets of Tehran is bleak and disturbing. Unmarried and without supportive families, each of them attempts to flee the strictures of a repressive culture.

A controversial book, with a number of detractors, written by an American Muslim woman who confronts sexual inequality as she finds it practiced among other Muslims. Includes an illuminating description of her family's pilgrimage to Mecca.