She takes her name from her paternal grandmother: Lalla Oum el Ghait Bent Bella.

UNESCO: International Women's Day

For dessert, Michael inspired me to pay homage to my own paternal grandmother.

WSJ: Easter Feast for the Champagne Set

This wondrous, fable-like, yet pain-streaked new film by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is set in Tokyo, where a young prostitute working her way through college (Rin Takanashi) is pressured by her firmly paternal pimp to see a john that night despite her prior appointment with her grandmother.

NEWYORKER: Like Someone in Love