Prosecutors wasted little time Tuesday spelling out the who, what, when and where of their case against 15-year-old Jason Nawara in the rape and murder of his young stepsister. But they didn’t ...

Sharp social critique infuses the populist Egyptian cinema stylings of “Nawara,” a velvet-clothed yet biting commentary on how the poor always get screwed. Director-scripter Hala Khalil ...

Five months later, Jason Nawara, the teen-ager accused of breaking into Sabo’s Lake Panasoffkee house, was charged with the premeditated murder of Tammi Dale Peck, his 10-year-old stepsister.

brings her light touch with social drama and keen feeling for women’s problems to Nawara. The saga of a poor housemaid in the aftermath of the Tahrir Square uprising brims over with ...

A velvet-clothed though biting commentary on how Egypt's poor always get screwed. Though not one to complain, Nawara (Shalabi) doesn’t have an easy life. She’s been married for five years to ...

Director Hala Khalil has a lot to say about Egypt post-Tahrir Square and 122 minutes is hardly enough to fit it all into the absorbing feature Nawara. This is a classic ‘women’s film’ in ...