Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a man dies, intones the leader of a women’s wake, the light goes from the home. Nawal (Mouna Hawa), who has woken to find her ...

In “Inshallah a Boy,” selected for Cannes’ Critics Week, women talk about sex and pregnancy. They also address misogyny and social injustice. But most of all, they say no. “The main idea was to talk ...

The walls of societal subjugation begin to close in on a recent widow in Amjad Al Rasheed's terrifically tense Jordanian Oscar submission. When it transpires that there are four outstanding truck ...