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  Gritty Lebanese film challenges marital rape impunity in Arab world
      In a short film set in Lebanon, where marital rape is not a crime, filmmaker Farah Shaer tackles one of Arab society's biggest taboos and highlights the difficulties women face when reporting domestic and sexual violence. Ban Barkawi has the details 
  
  
      
  
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               Ban Barkawi