A Woman's World is a weekly series featuring films about Muslim women. Through the eyes of filmmakers around the world, the series addresses the most important issues - personal, social, and political - facing Muslim women. In presenting these films, A Woman's World seeks to explore the perspectives of Muslim women and the ways in which they are striving to expand their rights and opportunities.
"Girls Still Dream" highlights the cultural clash between traditional values and young women's growing self-awareness in the developing world.
In this engrossing new documentary, award-winning filmmaker Ateyyat El Abnoudy realistically portrays the challenges facing girls in a country where one in four marries before age sixteen and one in five ever attends school. Abnoudy speaks frankly to girls, parents and teachers to document their hopes, dreams and life choices. While girls both in and out of school share ambitions ranging from becoming a doctor to attaining basic reading skills, parents express mixed feelings about education's relevance. An affecting view of how Egyptian women still struggle for such basic human rights as education and the avoidance of compulsory marriage, Girls Still Dream highlights the cultural clash between traditional values and young women's growing self-awareness in the developing world.
Julie Vahdati interviews documentary filmmakers from across the globe at this year's Silverdocs film festival.
The Silverdocs documentary film festival is fast becoming one of the most celebrated documentary film festivals in the U.S.
Now in its sixth year, this cooperative effort between the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel once again attracted hundreds of filmmakers, movie fans and industry professionals from across the globe.
This annual event, which takes place at the American Film Institute’s facilities in Silver Spring, Maryland, showcased over 100 films representing 63 countries.
A Woman's World is produced by the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau in line with the U.S. policy of promoting the rights of women worldwide.
Julie Vahdati is the host of A Woman's World more>
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A Woman's World is a weekly series featuring films about Muslim women. Through the eyes of filmmakers around the world, the series addresses the most important issues - personal, social, and political - facing Muslim women. In presenting these films, A Woman's World seeks to explore the perspectives of Muslim women and the ways in which they are striving to expand their rights and opportunities. 
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