Writer-director Minhal Baig brings this very specific narrative to life with tenderness and care in “Hala.” The film opens with a Muslim prayer, and within seconds the camera is focused on Hal ...

A straightforward film about people we rarely get movies about, “Hala” is writer-director Minhal Baig’s sincerely dramatized evocation of a Muslim teenager’s evolving relationship with her ...

Journalist and former CNN anchor Hala Gorani tells NPR's Leila Fadel that she has a whole paragraph queued up to answer a seemingly simple question: Where are you from? Gorani's memoir ...

By Fahima Haque “If I had seen something like this when I was growing up, I would have felt less alone,” the director Minhal Baig said of her film “Hala.” Baig’s coming-of-age story ...

Award-winning journalist Hala Gorani was "born in one country" and "raised in another with parents from somewhere else entirely," as she tells us in her new book "But You Don't Look Arab ...