Director Brigid Maher will be in attendance at the Middle East Studies conference screening of her new documentary film, VEILED VOICES. Maher’s film will be shown at 4:15pm on Sunday,  November 22 at the 2009 Middle East Studies conference, to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from November 21-24.

VEILED VOICES investigates the world of Muslim women religious leaders through the eyes of three women in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Filmed over the course of two years, Maher’s film reveals a world rarely documented, exploring both the public and private worlds of these women Islamic leaders. Other Typecast titles being screened at the Middle East Studies conference this year are AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, directed by David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier, REMNANTS OF A WAR, from director Jawad Metni and the latest feature from Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab, DUNIA: KISS ME NOT ON THE EYES. Go here to find the full film schedule for this year’s MESA conference in Boston.