I am absolutely honored to welcome her to this team and to partner with her in upholding the rights and dignity of refugees.” Al-Kateab explored her own experience of war and displacement in her 2019 debut, For Sama, co-directed with Edward Watts, which premiered at South By Southwest and won the Cannes Film Festival’s Golden Eye award for best documentary, The film traces Al-Kateab’s journey as a young mother through the beginning of the Syrian war in 2012 through the fall of her hometown of Aleppo in December 2016.
