Part 9: “Family Ties” by Nadia Hijab. Comments by: Dr. Yusur al-Madani. Most Arab women’s lives still centre on the family, their traditional responsibilities to their own children and the power of parents and relatives to dictate their role in life. Writer and journalist Nadia Hijab weaves this film around a large extended family of Jordanians living in Amman. The mother, Umm Ghassem, is clearly the powerful heart of this family ¬strong and humorous and frank in her description of her life. In spite of its traditional restraints, the extended Arab family is seen to work ¬ as secure and loving and caring as it has always been. But we…