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Release Date: 2007

Categories: Movies, Culture & Society, Biography, World cinema, Documentary, Literary Studies, Language & Literature

Forbidden Lie$ is an Australian documentary released in September 2007. It was directed by Anna Broinowski. Forbidden Lie$ tells the story of Norma Khouri, author of the book Forbidden Love, purportedly the true story of "Dalia", a young Muslim woman in Jordan murdered by her family in an honor killing because of her affair with a Christian soldier. The documentary first depicts Khouri as a woman bravely exposing a brutal and true story. Eventually, her account is challenged, first by Jordanians, then by Malcolm Knox, an Australian journalist. The film cuts between interviews with Knox,... MORE

Forbidden Lie$ is an Australian documentary released in September 2007. It was directed by Anna Broinowski. Forbidden Lie$ tells the story of Norma Khouri, author of the book Forbidden Love, purportedly the true story of "Dalia", a young Muslim woman in Jordan murdered by her family in an honor killing because of her affair with a Christian soldier. The documentary first depicts Khouri as a woman bravely exposing a brutal and true story. Eventually, her account is challenged, first by Jordanians, then by Malcolm Knox, an Australian journalist. The film cuts between interviews with Knox, Khouri and other individuals (like friends and family), sometimes showing the participants as they watch others talk about them. Through it all, Khouri defends the accuracy of her work. Ironically, Khouri's first critics are Jordanian women: feminists who, when interviewed, take issue with her western perspectives of Muslim women as victims with no control over their lives. (Notably, when one Jordanian dissenter visits an office for assisting victims of abuse, the director of the facility remarks that they have received no donations from royalties on Khouri's book, which she claimed would LESS