Scheherazade's Diary

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Scheherazade's Diary, is a 2013 Lebanese movie, directed by Zeina Daccache. with a runtime of 78 minutes.

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Scheherazade's Diary is a powerful Lebanese documentary that follows the women inmates of a Beirut prison through a ten-month drama therapy workshop, culminating in their 2012 performance of Scheherazade in Baabda inside the prison walls. As each woman shares her story, the film builds a collective portrait of lives shaped and broken by patriarchal oppression — revealing how the social and legal systems of Lebanon, and the broader Arab world, too often lead women from hardship directly to crime and incarceration. Part intimate character study and part social indictment, the film gives voice to women whose stories are rarely told, transforming the prison stage into a space of resistance and reclamation.

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