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Writer-director Cherien Dabis plays May, a New York writer who returns home to Jordan to marry. But although her recent book is praised for “putting a human face on the region’s conflicts,” she becomes embroiled in conflict. Mom joined a fundamentalist Protestant sect and disapproves of her fiancé, a Muslim intellectual at Columbia University. And that’s only one level of family drama as May wrestles with doubts over marriage in this thoughtful, fun (and funny) film.
