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Zouaoui, Nadia.
Muslim women -- Biography.
Women in Islam.
Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Women's rights -- Islamic countries.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law)
Kabylia (Algeria) -- Social conditions.
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Zouaoui, Nadia.
Muslim women -- Biography.
Women in Islam.
Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Women's rights -- Islamic countries.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law)
Kabylia (Algeria) -- Social conditions.
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Nadia's journey [videorecording (
DVD
)].
National Film Board of Canada c2006.
Call #:
DVD
305
.48697
N136
Subjects
Zouaoui, Nadia.
Muslim women -- Biography.
Women in Islam.
Women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.
Muslim women -- Social conditions.
Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Women's rights -- Islamic countries.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law)
Kabylia (Algeria) -- Social conditions.
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)].
Description:
1 videodisc (72 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Letterbox 4x3 presentation.
Public performance rights.
Dialogue in English and Kabyle ; subtitles in English.
Closed-captioned.
Production:
Produced by Argus Films in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada production ; Writer, Nadia Zouaoui ; Original music, Jimmy Tanaka ; Directors, Carmen Garcia, Nadia Zouaoui ; Producers, Carmen Garcia (Argus Films) and Yves Bisaillon (NFB).
Summary:
"As a young woman, Nadia Zouaoui vowed that her suffering would not be in vain. When she was 19, her parents forced her into an arranged marriage with an Algerian man twice her age living in Montreal. He had chosen her based on a photograph. Years later, she returns to Kabylie, Algeria to see if things are any different. Her journey is a hellish voyage into a patriarchal culture backed by strict Muslim tradition, a society obsessed with female virginity that keeps women in servitude. She depicts with clarity and intimacy the cruelty endured even to this day by so many girls and women held captive in their homes. This deeply disturbing documentary provides a gripping experience for men and women, young and old alike."--NFB.
Genre:
Biographical documentary films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Garcia, Carmen.
Zouaoui, Nadia.
National Film Board of Canada.
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