'I live in the 21st century, not the 10th': the first female judge in a sharia court

Update: 2018-11-28

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The Judge, a new film by award-winning director Erika Cohn, tells the incredible story of how Kholoud Al-Faqih achieved her improbable dream of representing women in the Middle East’s all-male religious courts

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'I live in the 21st century, not the 10th': the first female judge in a sharia court

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'I live in the 21st century, not the 10th': the first female judge in a sharia court

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'I live in the 21st century, not the 10th': the first female judge in a sharia court