The Unconcealed Voice of Women Journalist-producer Ayse Bohurler narrates the struggle of about 140 women from 13 Muslim countries to overcome the walls of prejudices and even of their own countries.

Behind the Walls is the fruit of a three year long labour for journalist and author Ayse Bohurler. Beginning life as a documentary film project, its comprehensive look at Muslim women soon burgeoned into this book, the material and information contained within outgrowing it′s imagined medium.

Comprising interviews from about one hundred and forty people from thirteen Muslim countries, the texts are presented in both the original languages – Arabic, Persian, English, French Urdu and Malay – and in translation. The countries visited are Yemen, Sudan, Algeria, Oman, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.

Female ministers and Members of Parliament, chairwomen of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), activists, women employed in the mass media, authors, artists, teachers, students, and those representing many business sectors discuss the politics, social life, violence, labour and problems they struggle with daily and share their thoughts and solutions.

“We all know that there are women still having traumatic experiences in Islamic countries and even in Turkey today. “Behind the Walls” could play a role in lessening these traumas. It could help others to look at women, particularly Muslim women from a fair perspective.” ~Prof. Beşir Atalay, Interior Minister