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Many people think of Islam, or religion generally, as disempowering for girls and women. The Light in Her Eyes, a documentary by Laura Nix and Julia Meltzer, challenges that notion. It follows Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim, wife, mother, preacher, and founder of a girls\\u2019 religious school in Damascus. In observing al-Habash, her children, students, and colleagues at school, at home, in shopping malls, and at outdoor caf\\xe9s, the film explores how modernity and Muslim faith co-exist, challenging many Western assumptions that such co-existence is a fallacy.

Meltzer and Nix join Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to talk about the difficulties they had filming as American women\\u2014one Jewish, one Christian\\u2014in Syria and about their audiences\' reactions to the seemingly contradictory values and aspirations expressed by al-Habash and her students.

The Light in Her Eyes airs on the PBS series \\u201cPOV\\u201d on July 19, 2012, and...

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