(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 were many things which were preventing them. Firstly, I am from the Druze minority in Syria, which is very sensitive about harming a woman, and the government was worried there might be an uprising at that time. Secondly, as my name became even more famous . . .