(4/9) Even the brother of the president threatened that they were going to kill me. He sent someone to my work to tell me, ‘You will be killed now or later, and this is a promise’. Then, they put a show on Syrian TV accusing me of collaborating with some foreign...
(3/10) Then, Daraa. It started when children in that town wrote on a wall, ‘It will be your turn soon, Doctor.’ Intelligence arrested those children and tortured them and took off their fingernails. They were around 10 – 14 years old. Then, the people in Daraa went to...
(2/9) In 2007, I moved to Damascus and I started working in the drama field. I wrote a second TV series and other films and a lot of things, and I always had serious problems but nothing like the first one. The regime had the power to imprison or to kill me but there...
(1/9) 15 years ago, I discovered a lot of corruption while I was working for the Syrian telephone services. The government wanted me to stay silent when I stood up against this corruption, but I wouldn’t. At that time, my children were still under 5, and there was a...
(Part 1 of 2) Armed struggle started in Eritrea in the month I was born. Growing up, I remember we had to avoid the Ethiopian soldiers because they would rape you and kill you if they saw you. Most of my family was influenced by politics, including my older brothers –...
