Fatma Al-Ghanim, Former Qatar Women’s Soccer Captain, on Her Tribeca Short About Breaking Taboos in Arab Sports: ‘I Couldn’t Avoid Dealing With This Trauma Anymore’
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Fatma Al-Ghanim is a Qatari athlete and filmmaker who is breaking new ground for women in the tiny country and in the Arab world at large. In 2010, she captained Qatar ’s first-ever women’s national soccer team. Now, Al-Ghanim is at the Tribeca Film Festival with “Theatre of Dreams,” a powerful short that marks her directorial and acting debut and exposes the fierce cultural opposition to women playing soccer in Qatar from her personal prism. Set against the backdrop of the FIFA World Cup Qatar
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