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 ...

Geraldine Viswanathan is astonishingly resonant as a teenager testing the boundaries of faith, tradition and sexuality. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Lily Ford Hala Matar is the first of her kind. The director tells The Hollywood Reporter she is the first female Bahraini director to make a feature film. After growing up in the Middle East ...