'The Judge' documentary explores Middle East's first female jurist in sharia law courts
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2018
2 minutes
"The Judge" is not the eagerly anticipated documentary on Supreme Court luminary Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That film, "RBG," is coming soon, but in the interim viewers would be wise to take in this story of another female jurist who is just about as impressive.
That would be Kholoud Al-Faqih, a judge in a Palestinian sharia or religious court in the
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