April 29, 2005
The Asian News comments on Women of the Holy Kingdom
April 14, 2005
The Commonwealth Film Festival in Manchester gears up to play “Women of the Holy Kingdom” on May 5th.
April 11, 2005
You can listen to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s radio interview online at Radio News Source
April 2, 2005
Lost Remote posts a Tivo Alert for Women of the Holy Kingdom
April 2, 2005
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Repoters Notebook about Saudi Arabia appeared in The New York Times on April 2nd 2005.
April 1, 2005
Nancy DeWolf Smith’s review of Women in the Holy Kingdom appears in the Weekend Edition of The Wall Street Journal today (April 1st 2005).
She writes “Women of the Holy Kingdom” (Discovery Times channel, Monday 8-9 p.m.) Reform may be in the air in Saudi Arabia, yet as Pakistani filmmaker Sharmen Obaid discovered on a recent trip to the kingdom, reform there is a relative term. In her fascinating film, what passes for progress to Saudi women is permission to work in manufacturing — even if it’s only a sewing factory where everyone is shrouded in a black cloak and veil, and one liberated soul who grants an interview does so with only the whites of her eyes visible. Ms. Obaid hears about a progressive forum where Saudi men and women meet to discuss issues of the day, but arrives to find all the female participants segregated behind a screen. And, most dispiriting of all, for every woman Ms. Obaid meets who is eager to assert some rights, many others apparently approve of things just the way they are.