Iraqi Womens Basketball Team , RISEABOVE

Traveling the world, finding the best global sports stories about amateur athletes. That s what the new Rise Above documentary series by Jordan Brand does. In the first installment, the filmmakers travel to Iraq to meet 20yearold Leylan, who stars on an allfemale basketball team at the American University of Iraq Sulaimani. The significance Because of the long history of gender inequality in Leylan s home country. Men interviewed on camera say the believe a woman s role is in the home, yet in spite of