Set in the weeks just prior to the Egyptian revolution known as Arab Spring, VEILS follows Intisar, an African-American Muslim student, who enrolls for a year abroad at the American Egyptian University in Cairo, thinking she will finally feel like she belongs. Her new Egyptian roommate, Samar, has different views – particularly about the practice of veiling – and yearns to have greater freedom of expression as a journalist. As the political and personal turmoils build, the two young women…