interview Mohab with wife Eva, his inspiration
A Call to Action LIZ O’REILLY BTM speaks to producer Mohab Khattab the man behind a groundbreaking documentary aimed at showing the very human face of Syria’s refugee crisis.
44 July 2015
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t’s impossible to pick up a paper or listen to the news without hearing stories of refugees killed as they attempt to sail to freedom or swamping host nations as they arrive in their thousands fleeing war and persecution in their homelands. June 20 was World Refugee Day and also the day the film Salam Neighbor had its world premiere at AFI Docs, one of the world’s most important documentary film festivals. Directed and produced by Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci, who shone the uncomfortable spotlight on world poverty with their film Living on One Dollar. Produced by Bahrain resident Mohab, Salam Neighbor follows the pair as they deliberately head to the edge of war, just seven miles from the Syrian border, to live among 85,000 uprooted refugees in Jordan’s Za’atari camp. Mohab says: “They are the first filmmakers the United Nations has ever allowed to register and set up a tent inside a refugee camp. Zach and Chris were plunged into the heart of the world’s most pressing humanitarian crisis – described by the UN as ‘the worst since World War II’.” Through the rhythm of daily routines and moments www.bahrainthismonth.com