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The War Show
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The regime’s biggest fears were those who held cameras, so they were the first to be eliminated. — Obaidah Zytoon, co-director, The War Show
When the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, 35-year-old radio DJ Obaidah Zytoon joined the revolution armed with two things: a video camera and hope. The portrait that resulted—encapsulating both the euphoria of protest and the devastating violence—is the subject of the 2016 Venice Days Award-winning documentary, The War Show.
Against the brutal backdrop of chaos and civil war, The War Show unfolds as an intimate account of the daily lives of Zytoon and her friends—among them a dentist, law student, and poet—and the transformations they endure documenting their own experiences of the Syrian conflict. But as protest marches turn into funerals, their ideas about the resistance—and their own identities—splinter. One thing, however, becomes clearer: the camera footage they collect doesn't just record the revolution—it is the revolution.
On May 9, New America NYC presented a screening of The War Show and a conversation with the film's producer and human rights experts on the state of the Syrian civil war, its estimated 11 million refugees, and what it'll take to move closer to resolution and peace.
INTRODUCTIONJustine Nagan @justinenagan Executive Director, American Documentary, Inc. Executive Producer, POV & America ReFramed
PARTICIPANTSAlaa Hassan @Alaa7assan Producer, The War Show
Sarah Mehta @sarahlmehtaAttorney and Researcher, Human Rights Program, ACLU
Sana Mustafa @sanasyr6Syrian refugee and social activist
Gissou Nia @gissounia Human rights lawyer and Strategy Director, Purpose
98 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on April 29, 2023 03:53 (). Last successful fetch was on August 02, 2022 01:18 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
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Manage episode 186005856 series 1130936
The regime’s biggest fears were those who held cameras, so they were the first to be eliminated. — Obaidah Zytoon, co-director, The War Show
When the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, 35-year-old radio DJ Obaidah Zytoon joined the revolution armed with two things: a video camera and hope. The portrait that resulted—encapsulating both the euphoria of protest and the devastating violence—is the subject of the 2016 Venice Days Award-winning documentary, The War Show.
Against the brutal backdrop of chaos and civil war, The War Show unfolds as an intimate account of the daily lives of Zytoon and her friends—among them a dentist, law student, and poet—and the transformations they endure documenting their own experiences of the Syrian conflict. But as protest marches turn into funerals, their ideas about the resistance—and their own identities—splinter. One thing, however, becomes clearer: the camera footage they collect doesn't just record the revolution—it is the revolution.
On May 9, New America NYC presented a screening of The War Show and a conversation with the film's producer and human rights experts on the state of the Syrian civil war, its estimated 11 million refugees, and what it'll take to move closer to resolution and peace.
INTRODUCTIONJustine Nagan @justinenagan Executive Director, American Documentary, Inc. Executive Producer, POV & America ReFramed
PARTICIPANTSAlaa Hassan @Alaa7assan Producer, The War Show
Sarah Mehta @sarahlmehtaAttorney and Researcher, Human Rights Program, ACLU
Sana Mustafa @sanasyr6Syrian refugee and social activist
Gissou Nia @gissounia Human rights lawyer and Strategy Director, Purpose
98 episodes
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