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Film: A Syrian Love Story
by Sean McAllister
UK/Syria 2015
Documentary, 76 min

Discussants:
Salam Said (Freie Universität Berlin)

This Film Screening and the Discussion is part of the Arabic Film Series "Beyond Spring", organized by Mayadin Al-Tahrir e.V., EUME and the Werkstatt der Kulturen.

Synopsis:
„Filmed over a period of five years, this intimate and insightful documentary perfectly balances the personal and the political, telling its tale of national and international upheavals through their impact on individuals at the cutting edge of change. This is a profoundly moving account of two love stories: that between the film’s central couple, Amer and Raghda, who are torn apart by imprisonment and exile; the other being their love for Syria, which casts a long shadow over their lives, their marriage and their children.” – © Mark Kermode, The Guardian

Salam Said is a Syrian economist. She received her PhD from the Institute for WorldEconomics and International Management at Bremen University in 2010. Since then she has lectured on Arab Economies and political economy of the Arab countries at different universities in Germany. Currently she is lecturing at the Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Science. From 2012 to 2014, she did a research on "Die Wirtschaftsinteressen des Syrischen Militärs während des 'Arabischen Frühlings'". Since 2015, she supervises the project of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation "Für sozial gerechte Wirtschaftspolitik in den arabischen Staaten".

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