Orwa Al-Mokdad

Orwa Al-Mokdad is a Syrian film director. His latest work is called '300 Miles' (2016).

From Aleppo to Beirut, cities burning

26 February 2021
At the onset of the revolution, Syrians gave roses to their killers, in the hope of convincing them that we wanted to build a nation and a country. The Lebanese...
Murder, and the burden of proof

06 January 2021
Murder turned into an act of self-defense, in which the regime and international community embarked on a selfish battle of describing the crime using terms such as civil war, the...
Distorting Syria

23 July 2020
What happens to perceptions of Syria when films directed and shot by Syrians themselves are later produced and distributed in the West? What is lost along the way?
Bassel Safadi: Killed for Being Two Steps Ahead of the Regime

24 August 2017
Perhaps the most dangerous thing about Bassel was that he could think as the regime thought, and could see reality the way it saw it.

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