For Sama, a 2019 Syrian documentary depicting a young mother's life during the civil war, could win another coveted accolade at Sunday's Oscars. The film, directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, entered the spotlight last week when it won won Best Documentary at the 74th British Academy Film Awards. The riveting war documentary could make headlines again this Sunday at the Oscars, where it is in the running for ...
![A rebel fighter from the Free Syrian Army holds a position with a Belgium made FAL rifle at a front line in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on December 1, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/452758435.jpg?itok=oZcvJfBT "A rebel fighter from the Free Syrian Army holds a position with a Belgium made FAL rifle at a front line in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on December 1, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carries his weapon as he looks through a hole in a wall in Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood December 4, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/ISIS.jpg?itok=BvOPQFw4 "A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carries his weapon as he looks through a hole in a wall in Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood December 4, 2013. [AFP]")
![A Syrian man cries carrying the body of a child killed by a barrel bomb. [gendynamics]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/barrel_bombs.jpg?itok=ebIGHDCG "A Syrian man cries carrying the body of a child killed by a barrel bomb. [gendynamics]")
![A Syrian man helps an injured man following an airstrike in Aleppo's Maadi neighborhood on December 17, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/457373781.jpg?itok=iHxSJlRn "A Syrian man helps an injured man following an airstrike in Aleppo's Maadi neighborhood on December 17, 2013. [AFP]")
![Lebanese police forensic experts inspect the wreckage of a car at the site of a powerful car bomb explosion on December 28, 2013 that rocked central Beirut the previous day. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6279498.jpg?itok=W6hFtvNi "Lebanese police forensic experts inspect the wreckage of a car at the site of a powerful car bomb explosion on December 28, 2013 that rocked central Beirut the previous day. [AFP]")
![Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/000_Nic6278539.jpg?itok=M4krqibQ "Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]")
![Abu Faour continued, “Nonetheless, we are trying to come up with a mechanism for coordination among the NGOs, but how can we succeed when most of them deal with the [refugee] issue like it is a business?”](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/snow-southlebanon.jpg?itok=iwaMjOK2 "Abu Faour continued, “Nonetheless, we are trying to come up with a mechanism for coordination among the NGOs, but how can we succeed when most of them deal with the [refugee] issue like it is a business?”")
![Syrian children search for their belongings at a school following airstrikes by Syrian government forces on December 22, 2013 in the northern Syrian city of Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/000_Nic6277995.jpg?itok=XMhJ0dcf "Syrian children search for their belongings at a school following airstrikes by Syrian government forces on December 22, 2013 in the northern Syrian city of Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo. [AFP]")
