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Nermeen Shaikh at "For Sama" Film Post-Screening Q&A

New York, NY

July 27, 2019 | Saturday | 4:45 pm

Quad Cinema

34 West 13th St.
New York, NY 10011 ( see map )
Nermeen Shaikh will join Directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts and featured subject Dr. Hamza al-Kateab for a Q&A following the screening of “For Sama” on its opening weekend.

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.

Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts.

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Nermeen Shaikh

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Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host and senior producer at Democracy Now! She worked briefly at Al Jazeera English in Washington, D.C. before joining Democracy Now! in 2011.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Nobel Women’s Initiative.

She was previously the Managing Editor at Asia Society and a researcher at the International Institute for...