ACT for Lebanon USA is proud to co-sponsor Marcel Khalife's U.S. Turath Tour: "Sounds for a New Golden Age", featuring Rami and Bachar Khalife at the Town Hall Theater on Wednesday December 7th. We hope to see you at the concert. Tickets available at http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/030051551AB7D575

This engaging tragicomic documentary follows women inmates through a 10-month drama therapy/theater project set up in 2012 by director Zeina Daccache at the Baabda Prison in Lebanon. Through their unprecedented theater initiative, entitled Scheherazade's Diary, these "murderers of husbands, adulterers and drug felons" reveal their stories—tales of domestic violence, traumatic childhoods, failed marriages, forlorn romances, and deprivation of motherhood. The women of Baabda Prison share their personal stories, and in doing so, hold up a mirror to Lebanese society and…