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Women are usually stereotyped by media. In advertising, television programs, newspaper, magazines, comic books, popular music videos, even in films and video games, women and girls are more likely to be shown performing domestic chores or as sexual objects or as victims who are the natural recipients of harassment and assault. We also use to witness typecast mediatic images of Muslim women. However, a number of post-2000 films on Islamic societies made by Islamic and non-Islamic filmmakers, are pivoting around strong Muslim female characters. These films have opened up new dimensions for academic inquiry regarding the depiction of women in media. My Tehran for Sale (2009) by Granaz Moussavi, Lemon Tree (2008) by Eran Riklis and Bol (2011) by Shoaib Mansoor are some of the films which need to be discussed at length in this particular context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with the director of the Israeli film "Lemon Tree," Eran Riklis is presented. He shares that in making the film, he deal with the Palestinians who raise more sensitive issues. He mentions that the challenges that he faced while making the film was to stay true to the characters and to the story. He added that his next project is called "Human Resources," which is based on a famous Israeli book by A.B. Yehoshua.

The article reviews the film "Lemon Tree," starring Hiam Abbass and Ali Suliman, directed by Eran Riklis.