(un)veiled

Director
Kanna, Ines Hoffman
Producer
Kanna, Ines Hoffman
Year
2007
Spoken
Arabic
English
Subtitle
English
Country
United States
United Arab Emirates
Length
36
Format
DVD
Off
Description

(un)veiled introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Their discussion about hijab, the headscarf, revolves around a lecture on the same topic that was banned last minute but delivered anyway. In a time when Islam and especially Muslim women are represented as monolithic and beset by backwardness, the women in (un)veiled show the diverse, lively, argumentative debates in Muslim societies about the meanings of modernity, emancipation, and feminism.