He holds a Bachelor of Arts in audio-visual arts and filmmaking from The International Film and Television School EICAR in Paris. International Film Festival, Best World Cinema Sarasota Film Festival, a Peabody Award and the CriticsвЂ™ Choice Award.ДЇayyad was born in Syria in 1984. Paul International Film Festival, Audience Award Washington D.C. The film went on to screen at festivals around the globe and received another 18 international awards, including Best World Cinema Minneapolis St.

вЂњLast Men in AleppoвЂќ premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary competition. The film followed a small group of volunteer rescue workers with the White Helmets civil defense organization. His most recent film, вЂњLast Men in Aleppo,вЂќ earned him a 2018 Academy Award nomination and an Emmy for Best Documentary Feature. The siege of Eastern Al Ghouta separated him from his wife and four children, who were living in regime-controlled Damascus.ДЇeras Fayyad is an award-winning filmmaker who has received particular recognition for his work on contemporary Syrian issues and the political transformation of the Arab world. He provided testimony to the United Nations and human rights organizations that investigated the attacks. He was one of the most active doctors in Al Ghouta after the 2013 chemical weapons attack. When the uprising in Syria began in 2011, he treated injured protestors and adopted the pseudonym Sakhr to avoid being identified by the Assad regime and its supporters. Salim is a general surgeon and previously volunteered in the medical rescue and relief of civilian victims of the Iraq war as well as the Lebanese-Israeli war in 2006.

He also works closely with Samaher as he performs the most difficult surgeries at the Cave, always with classical music playing on his mobile phone.Дr. Amani, he and makes it clear to everyone that he respects and believes in her. In the early days of the 2011 uprising, he adopted a pseudonym, Sakhr, which means вЂњrock.вЂќ And he is very much the rock his colleagues can always count on: calm, supportive, loyal. Salim Namour is the oldest doctor working at the Cave, as well as the most experienced. She was forcibly displaced to northern Syria in 2018 and currently lives in Turkey.Дr. She kept detailed journals about the attack and the days that followed, and wrote and blogged about the attackвЂ™s impact on people and the environment. AmaniвЂ™s life and perspective as she worked in rescue and relief operations. The 2013 chemical attack on Al Ghouta altered Dr. She began treating children - particularly those who were injured under bombardment in remote areas of the province - in emergency rooms.

She began studying for her specialty in pediatrics but abandoned her studies to help the people of Al Ghouta, who were coming under attack from the Assad regime. Amani was born and raised in Eastern Al Ghouta and completed her general medical studies at the University of Damascus in 2012. She lives her beliefs, too, whether sheвЂ™s encouraging little girls to see themselves as important and capable, or offering jobs to civilian women who need a means of income.Дr. She fights back against the patriarchal conservatism that designates women as weak and inferior to men, and is staunchly committed to standing up for womenвЂ™s rights to live and work as they choose. Amani is a compassionate and reassuring figure to the infants and children she treats, and to their parents. Meanwhile, she continued to work as a pediatrician, tending to the constant stream of sick and injured children who needed treatment. Amani contended with the grave realities specific to running a hospital under siege conditions: finding solutions to equipment and medicine shortages protecting the structure itself by adding aboveground and underground fortifications and, above all, ensuring the safety of patients and staff. Amani Ballour was only 29 when her colleagues elected her to oversee the Cave in 2016.

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