"Birds of War": New Film Tells a Story of Love and Journalism from Syria to Lebanon

Summary

We speak with Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, filmmakers and subjects of the new documentary Birds of War , which tells their epic love story through years of upheaval in the Middle East. Boulos, a London-based Lebanese journalist working for the BBC , and Habak, a Syrian activist and cameraman, first connected while covering the Syrian civil war and stayed in touch through years of war, revolution and exile, forming a relationship that is chronicled in the documentary by drawing on 13 years of their personal videos, voice notes and other correspondence. The film also examines the unequal…

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