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Toucan Faisal of Jordan is the first and only woman in the Jordanian parliament. A former television personality, she decided to go into government to rectify the abuses her investigative reports uncovered. Though publicly decried by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, she refuses to be intimidat...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Filmakers Library,
1997.
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| Series: | Women in the Arab world ;
2 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Toucan Faisal of Jordan is the first and only woman in the Jordanian parliament. A former television personality, she decided to go into government to rectify the abuses her investigative reports uncovered. Though publicly decried by the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, she refuses to be intimidated as she speaks out for human rights and democracy. There are constant threats against her life and for a time there was even a fatwa against her. But her convictions compel her to continue her crusade. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as DVD. Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011). Slide. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (26 min.). |
| Audience: | For College; Adult audiences. |