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 ...

This week in movies you missed: In this 2009 Egyptian flick, a journalist becomes an enemy of the state when she tells the stories of ordinary women on the air. That would never happen to Oprah! Hebba ...

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 ...