(Un)veiled
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Hofmann Kanna Ines ;
- Editeurs : Watertown, MA Documentary Educational Resources [éd., distr] ;
- Date d'édition : 2008
- Sujets : Femmes dans l'islam -- DVD, Voiles islamiques, Musulmanes, Films ethnographiques DVD Émirats arabes unis
- Langue(s) : Français
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD mono face toutes zones (36 min), : Coul. (PAL), son.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Version en anglais
Résumé
Indiqué sur la jaquette : (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. Dubai, where the filmmaker lived for eight months, becomes a character in itself, showing the complex face of a contemporary Arab city.