Topic: Middle Eastern

In Iran, there is a thriving trade in kidneys, which poor people line up to sell at less than $3,000.

In the strict Islamic nation of Iran, it is legal to be transsexual but not gay.

As Israel disengages from the Gaza Strip, democracy is pitted against social and political turmoil.

Girls in training in the Israeli Defense Forces are transformed over two months.

A woman returns home to her children in Bolivia after 15 years to find they've become strangers.

A filmmaker follows her father back to Afghanistan to fight skyrocketing maternal mortality.

Eight widows in Galilee form a cooperative to make and sell pickles and support their families.

Three women work to assure the legitimacy of Egypt's recent multiparty elections.

A Kurdish refugee returns to his homeland to make peace with the past.

Arab and Jewish children learn together as their school attempts a binational and bilingual program.

Follow members of the Zionist elite from birth to the crisis that weakened the kibbutz movement.

Hannah Senesh was the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a and modern-day Joan of Arc.

Project Kashmir tests a friendship in one of the most dangerous and beautiful places on earth.

“Religion had been used to divide the people, and then divide the land.”

“I just want some ... distance from this place, so it comes in my dreams, and not my nightmares.”

Bombs level civilian houses as the Indian Army tries to flush out suspected militants.

A young Muslim Israeli is trapped between her passion for karate and religious tradition.

A pair of filmmakers meet the unexpected when they cross into disputed territory between Pakistan and India.

Gay Palestinian Boody talks about the threats he received on the U.S. screening tour of the film.

Language, culture, and history foil Americans training civilians for the Afghan National Army.

Meet five female soldiers who saw action in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle.

Follow GlobeTrekker host Justine Shapiro and her six-year-old son as they visit Iran.

A comic book based on the 99 virtues of Allah runs up against unexpected opposition.

The creator of The 99 describes what inspired him to create Islamic superheroes.

An investor in The 99 describes his unlikely Mississippi origins.

Naif Al-Mutawa preferred to escape his awkward adolescence by losing himself in books.

Behind the scenes with Isaac Solotaroff

Follow the complex and intimate relationship between an Indian filmmaker and her maid.

A filmmaker chronicles her brother's traditional Persian marriage to an American wife in Iran.

Follow the precarious existence of one Palestinian family in Israel.