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Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

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A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

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Lithuanian photographer, the legend of Soviet Sixties' generation Vitas Luckus tragically passed away in 1987. Yet the life and times of the talented...

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.