Waad Al-Kateab

Waad Al-Kateab (born c. 1991) is the pseudonym of a Syrian journalist, filmmaker and activist whose documentary For Sama (2019) won the BAFTA for Best Documentary and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature ^{1 2}. She was included in Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2020 ¹.

Al-Kateab moved to Aleppo in 2009, aged eighteen, to study at the University of Aleppo, and when the Syrian Civil War broke out in 2011 she began reporting as a citizen journalist for Channel 4 News in the United Kingdom ^{1 2}. She stayed through the siege of Aleppo, documenting her life over five years as she married Hamza, a doctor, and gave birth to their daughter Sama; her coverage won an International Emmy, the first for a Syrian ¹. For Sama, co-directed with Edward Watts, won the Prix L'Oeil d'or at Cannes in 2019 and became the most nominated documentary in BAFTA history with four nominations ^{1 2}. After fleeing Aleppo in December 2016 she settled in the United Kingdom with her husband and daughters ¹. No text read for this record names a faith for Al-Kateab herself, so her faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3}.

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