But when Alma discovers her true identity, it incites her rebellion against the limitations imposed by her father and allows her to embrace her true ambition to become a doctor. Ultimately, Alma must struggle to disentangle herself from her father and his pattern of deception to find intimacy and independence. Cutting the sexual organs of a girl is meant to cleanse her and prepare her for marriage. In Egypt, tahara goes as far back as the Pharaohs, when women couldn't inherit land unless they were circumcised. Today, the practice has been ruled illegal, but it still continues.
Some women still practice tahara because they're psychologically tied to the tradition.
All Power to the People All Power to the People uses the history of the Black Panther Party to examine the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and how its politics of racism, violence, poverty, drugs and fear continue their legacy in the 1990s. Filmmaker Lee Lew Lee provides a bold panorama of the times through archival footage and interviews, including such seminal figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Leonard Peltier, Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and Mumia abu Jamal. In My Corner Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundbeg deliver a knock-out punch in a portrait of two teenagers seeking refuge and respect in a neighborhood gym in the South Bronx. This winning film went on to air on national television in PBS's P.O.V. series. This feature length motion picture documents the experiences of the prisoners and officers of the recently revived male chain gang and the world's first female chain gang.