The Syrian women fighting to save their city | World news | The Guardian

The Syrian women fighting to save their city | World news | The Guardian

" Amid the carnage and suffering, Erhaim has just completed a documentary that attempts to a tell a story that was in danger of being forgotten: the story of the women who chose not to leave, but to stay and help a city to survive its darkest hour.

“It’s not just men fighting the war in Syria; it is women, too, and they feel forgotten,” she told the Observer. “The women activists are working harder, against more problems, but are forgotten as the west obsesses on Islamic State " 

 

Zaina Erhaim poses for a photo before receiving the 2015 Peter Mackler
award at the National Press Club in Washington in October 2015.
Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds