‘Documenting Syria: Health, Space, Activism’ A conversation with pioneering documentary film director Waad Al-Kateab on her multi award-winning documentary, ‘For Sama’.
8 December, 2021 -‘For Sama’ captures an epic and intimate journey filmed through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. Waad al-Kateab tells the story of how she fell in love, married, and gave birth to her daughter Sama.
Waad spoke about the act of documenting war and violence, accessing public health during conflict, the deconstruction and reconstruction of public and private spaces, and the role of the activist, among other topics, in conversation with Dr Bahriye Kemal, postcolonial and spatial studies scholar, Dr Maggie Grant, researcher on social work and families, and Syrian feminist activist and novelist Hiba Ezzideen.