{"id":658,"date":"2013-05-02T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/05\/02\/hot-docs-the-light-in-her-eyes\/"},"modified":"2013-05-02T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:30:00","slug":"hot-docs-the-light-in-her-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/05\/02\/hot-docs-the-light-in-her-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs: The Light in Her Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<i>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>The Light in Her Eyes <\/b><\/i>(DVD 10782) tells the fascinating story of a Muslim preacher whose school has led to more women taking active involvement in the Islamic community. The filmmaker notes that western feminism tends to be secular; in contrast, the women here use their religious education as a backbone for their own movement. It&#8217;s an interesting juxtaposition of a religion that is typically not associated with strong feminist tendencies with the burgeoning women&#8217;s movement inside it.<\/p>\n<p>Official description from <a href=\"http:\/\/thelightinhereyesmovie.com\/about\/\">the film&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur\u2019an school for girls in Damascus 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Every summer, her female students immerse themselves in a rigorous  study of Islam. A surprising cultural shift is under way\u2014women are  claiming space within the mosque. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Shot right before the uprising in Syria erupted, The Light in Her  Eyes offers an extraordinary portrait of a leader who challenges the  women of her community to live according to Islam, without giving up  their dreams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection. The Light in Her Eyes (DVD 10782) tells the fascinating story of a Muslim preacher whose school has led to more women taking active involvement in the Islamic community. The filmmaker notes that western feminism tends to be secular; in contrast, the women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,174],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-documentary","tag-hot-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}