Past Events

Please join the Center for Middle East Studies for an exciting film event:
The Judge, a film documenting the journey of the first female Shari`a court judge.

THE JUDGE provides rare insight into Shari'a law. an often-misunderstood legal framework for Muslims. told through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East's religious courts. "In it's engaging fashion it strikes one inspirational note after another its follows an ambitious. tough-minded and cheerful social revolutionary"

Q & A after film screening, moderated by Professor Atiya Aftab