The Cultural Frontline — Arabic cinema's fearless female film-makers The power of women’s stories in Arabic cinema and the challenges in telling their stories BBC World Service ...

Film-makers discuss how women’s stories are being told in Arabic cinema onstage in the BBC Radio Theatre, London. The award-winning journalist, Nawal al-Maghafi, hosts a panel of leading and ...

But her memory lives on in the record as a legendary female pharaoh. Wu Zetian, also known as Wu Zhou, was educated – a rare thing for girls at the time – and cunning. After coming to power ...