Amna, Nimo, Mouna – these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country.
A young woman forced into an arranged marriage in the 1950s; a coquettish student of French; a self-made divorcee and a ‘pious mama’ donning her hijab; and, finally, a feminist activist during the Arab Spring. The Dissenters is a portrait of a woman and an era that explodes our ideas of faith, freedom and political agency.
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