Beyond Honor is a heart-stopping, emotionally resonant portrayal of gender roles and the dynamics of power in a claustrophobic immigrant family living in Southern California. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim, a young ... more »Egyptian-American woman torn between two cultures. The world of her fathers decdedly Old World and tightly bound by tradition, while her world is contemporary America and its promise of freedom for all. But the American dream finally collapses for the entire Abdel-Karim family in a shocking event of barbaric proportions.« less