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WIDE ANGLE's cameras are on location in Morocco as history is made
- the graduation class at an imam school includes 50 women.
WIDE ANGLE's cameras are on location in Morocco as history is made.
In May 2006, an imam academy in the city of Rabat holds a
graduation ceremony. But the class of 2006 is no ordinary group of
students. Side by side with the male graduates are 50 women
pioneers, among the first contemporary group of women to be
officially trained as religious leaders in the Arab world.
Empowered to do everything that male imams do - except lead Friday
prayer in a mosque - the women will fan out across Morocco to work
as spiritual guides in mosques, schools, hospitals and prisons,
even hosting their own television and radio talk shows.