#Last men in aleppo

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Third Crusade

The Third Crusade (1189-1192 CE) was launched to retake Jerusalem after its fall to the Muslim leader Saladin in 1187 CE. The Crusade was led by three European monarchs, hence its other name of 'the Kings' Crusade'. The three leaders were: Frederick I Barbarossa, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1152-1190 CE), Philip II of France (r. 1180-1223 CE) and Richard I 'the Lionhearted' of England (r. 1189-1199 CE). Despite this pedigree, the campaign was a failure, the Holy City never even being attacked. Along the way, there were some victories, notably the capture of Acre and the battle of Arsuf. Fizzling out with a whimper, the Crusade collapsed because, by the time they arrived at their objective, the western leaders found themselves without sufficient men or resources to resist the still intact armies of Saladin. Although a compromise was negotiated with access for pilgrims to Jerusalem permitted and a Christian foothold maintained in the Middle East, another attempt to take the Holy City would shortly be made the original objective of the Fourth Crusade of 1202-1204 CE.

The Fall of Jerusalem

The Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE) had effectively ended with the complete failure to take Damascus in Syria in 1148 CE. The various Muslim states in the Middle East then realised that the once-feared western knights could be defeated and the precarious existence of the Crusader-held territories, the Latin East, was starkly highlighted. All that was needed now was a unification of Muslim forces and this was provided by one of the greatest of all medieval rulers, Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193 CE).

Saladin, the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt, took control of Damascus in 1174 CE and Aleppo in 1183 CE. Saladin then shocked the world by defeating the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its Latin allies at the Battle of Hattin in 1187 CE. Thus, Saladin was able to take control of such cities as Acre, Tiberias, Caesarea, Nazareth, Jaffa and even, the holiest of holies itself, Jerusalem. Remarkably lenient with his Christian captives compared to the butchery of the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE), after the recapture of Jerusalem almost a century earlier, Saladin accepted ransoms from those Latin Christians who could afford to buy their freedom and enslaved the rest. Eastern Christians were permitted to remain in Jerusalem as a protected minority group. The Latin East had all but collapsed, only Tyre remained in Christian hands, under the command of Conrad of Montferrat, but it would prove a useful foothold for the coming fightback.

Pope Gregory VIII only reigned for a few months in 1187 CE but, in October of that year, he made a lasting impact on history by calling for yet another crusade to win back Jerusalem and such lost holy relics as the True Cross. Nothing less than a repeat of the remarkable feat of the First Crusade would do. No fewer than three monarchs took up the Pope's challenge: the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa, king of Germany, Philip II of France and Richard I of England. With these being the three most powerful men in western Europe, the campaign promised much.

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The more time goes by, and the more it's referenced (sorry everyone watching on BBC1 tonight, spoilers), the more annoyed I am about how Thirteen's era was written.

Jodie Whittaker is a good actor and there are times when the Doctor we could have had shines through, but more often than not she just... Exposits.

You can put on an episode of Thirteen's era as audio-only, and you won't miss out on much. That shouldn't happen in TV. That's why Audio Description exists for those that need it. Everyone else does not need to see something and be told what's happening.

Chris Chibnall also wanted to show off more of the world, make Doctor Who feel like it's not just centred on the UK. But often this results in wasting runtime (that could have been spent with the four-person TARDIS team, developing their characters. Or, you know, on the plot) showing short clips of places with text on screen telling you it's in Russia or Australia or Kenya or wherever.

Or there's an unrelated scene in historical Aleppo just so you can say Doctor Who has been to Aleppo for two minutes and 36 seconds. Like, seriously, Can You Hear Me should have spent the runtime it spent in Aleppo fleshing out more of Ryan and his friend's depression, or Graham's fears about cancer, or the time Yaz was suicidal. Those are our main characters (minus The Doctor).

And this isn't even touching on The Timeless Child/Fugitive Doctor. RTD has handled that much better than Chris Chibnall did, and it was Chris's idea! I hated the whole storyline throughout the Chibnall era (well, throughout the finale of series 12/38 and all of series 13/39) and though I'm not a big fan of it now, actually doing something with your worldbuilding-altering plot is the number one way to make people who don't like it at least tolerate it, because it doesn't feel like you just threw a spanner in the works for nothing.

(one last note on the Fugitive Doctor, I do dislike the fact that the first Black Doctor, and first Black woman Doctor, is now a minor character who shows up every so often but isn't one of the main Doctors. It feels like he went 'OK, Doctor Who has always had a white man as the Doctor, lets fix that by inventing a load of doctors who aren't white or men, and all but one of them you see for a matter of seconds, and this one you hardly see'. To me, that just feels like a lazy fix. Yes, it's a bit weird that for their first fourteen lives/thirteen bodies The Doctor was a white man, especially since regenerations changing ethnicity has existed since the 70s, but the law of averages is a law of averages. Statistically unlikely doesn't equal impossible, and I would have preferred if Jo Martin was supposed to be the next (as in, then 14th) Doctor, with ~three years as the lead actor in the show. We've had a run of white men, it would make sense for there to now be a run of people who only fit a maximum of one of those categories for a bit, and then move to a colourblind/genderblind casting. But no! We get dozens of blank characters and then one underused Doctor, and then RTD decides that to bring in more viewers the show needs David Tennant again!)

I wish all the time spent on exposition dumps and telling us what's happening was instead spent on characterisation, or at least plot. Or both. Doing both at the same time is better, but also something that doesn't seem to happen. We get plot moments and then suddenly the plot stops, and we have a character moment. There should be a mix of plot and character moments and character moments, with the odd plot-heavy moment. Characters shouldn't cease being characters and become plot-movers as soon as the plot starts.

And Thasmin was badly handled. If you're gonna add in a relationship, don't wait ages to have characters acknowledge they have a crush on each other, and then only go on one date before one of them turns into David Tennant.

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On the Black Death in Africa and Asia, and the interconnected Middle Ages, by Eleanor Janega

“…See, the thing is that one of the weird myths I have to deal with all the time is that the Black Death was somehow a European experience, as opposed to an Afro-Eurasian one, and that Europeans were uniquely attacked by it because of something stupid/gross/superstitious that they did that everyone else avoided. Sometimes that’s people saying Europeans killed all their cats and so rats proliferated. Sometimes its people saying that Europeans didn’t bathe and therefore germs spread. (Of course, that’s beside the point anyway, because last time I checked fleas, which are what spreads plague, DGAF about how clean you are, but OK! Europeans still bathed! I am so tired!)

Sometimes, it’s people saying that Europeans’ backwards medical ideas involving the humoral system is to blame. (The entire Arabic world also believed in the humoral system! The only thing that works to treat the plague is antibiotics! No one in the entire world had medicine that could fight this until the nineteenth century!) Sometimes its people saying that Europeans threw sewage in the streets. (They didn’t, but I’ll have to talk about that another time. And also! Plague comes from fleas! Which do not live in human excrement anyway! So that’s really beside the point! And even when it’s pneumonic not bubonic it spreads via droplets! Which are in your breath! Not excrement! Oh my god!)

But here’s the thing, if any of that were true, (and it isn’t) that would mean that the theoretically smarter rest-of-the-world wouldn’t be affected by the Black Death at all because they were having a bath with their cat next to a fully piped sewage system while not believing in humoral theory or something.

Fun fact! No.

Now we might not have a lot of sources from the totally collapsed Silk Road cities, etc., but we do have a lot from our friends in the Middle East. And they are here to tell you that everyone was having a hard time, and they had a pretty clear idea of how the plague spread.

The historian Ibn al-Wardī (c.1291 – 1349), writing in Aleppo described the onslaught of the plague thusly:

“The plague frightened and killed. It began in the land of darkness [Northern Asia]. Oh what a visitor! It has been current for fifteen years. China was not preserved from it, nor could the strongest fortress hinder it. The plague afflicted the Indians in India. It weighed upon the Sind. It seized with it’s hand and ensnared even the lands of the Uzbeks. How many backs did it break in what is Transoxiana! The plague increased and spread further. It attacked the Persians, extended its steps toward the land of the Khitai, and gnawed away at the Crimea. It pelted Rum with live coals and led the outrage to Cyprus and the islands. The plague destroyed mankind in Cairo. Its eye was cast upon Egypt, and behold, the people were wide-awake.”

“… Oh Alexandria, this plague is like a lion which extends its arm to you. Have patience with the fate of the plague, which leaves of seventy men only seven. … The plague attacked Gaza, and it shook ‘Asqalan severyly. The plague oppressed Acre. The scourge came to Jerusalem … It overtook those people who fled to the al-‘Aqsa Mosque, which stands beside the Dome of the Rock. If the door of mercy had not been opened, the end of the world would have occurred in a moment. It, then, hastened its pace and attacked the entire maritime plain. The plague trapped Sidon and descended unexpectedly upon Beirut, cunningly. Next, it directed the shooting of its arrows to Damascus. There the plague sat like a king on a throne and swayed with power, killing daily one thousand or more and decimating the population.”[6]

He died of the plague.

Later, writing in Algeria, the historian Ibn Khaldûn (1332-1406) said of the pestilence that “It swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out. It overtook dynasties at the time of their senility, when they had reached the limit of their duration. It lessened their power and curtailed their influence. It weakened their authority. Their situation approached the point of annihilation and dissolution. Civilization decreased with the decrease of mankind. Cities and buildings were laid waste, roads and way signs were obliterated, settlements and mansions became empty, dynasties and tribes grew weak. The entire inhabited world changed. The East, it seems, was similarly visited, though in accordance with and in proportion to (its more affluent) civilization. It was as if the voice of existence in the world had called out for oblivion and restriction, and the world had responded to its call. God inherits the earth and all who dwell upon it. … it is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered”.[7]

So, this is all very depressing, but I think it’s important that I lay this all out here for everyone’s perusal. Because the thing is until we begin to approach the medieval world as an interconnected place, weird myths are going to persist. As a Europeanist I am as guilty as anyone of aiding those who want to create a world where the Black Death is a phenomenon that happened on one continent to a group of uniquely stupid people. If no one sees the sources where our friends in Asia and Africa discuss the horrors around them, then of course they are going to continue to believe that the Black Death is something that happens when the Pope takes a disliking to cats. Or something.

I’m not writing this, however, just to defend Europe. I checked, these people are all dead and probably fine. I’m writing it because persisting with the myth that everywhere other than Europe was actually an enlightened paradise does a major disservice to those histories as well. Whole communities collapsed. Death was everywhere. The historians who wanted you to understand the chaos and pain happening all around them died of that plague and if we don’t witness that, then it’s for nothing.

Further, to pretend that only idiots couldn’t figure out that this pestilence was spread by germs in fleas is actually calling all our friends in Africa and Asia stupid as well. Because they also didn’t have germ theory, and they also died in huge numbers. This does not make them foolish.

We can’t go back in time and save the hundreds of millions of people who died of the Black Death in Afro-Eurasia. What we can do from our safe distance of almost seven hundred years, behind a wall of antibiotics, is to at least do them the service of acknowledging their experience and not calling them stupid. These were real people who lived in a complex world and were doing their best in it. Frankly, if you chose to ignore their suffering and their own testaments to it, then you are the one who is ignorant.

Societies are not a hierarchy, and we don’t need to impose one. We certainly don’t need to go back in time to do that either. Ideas of a divided medieval world where people from different continents were all separate and doing totally different things do nothing but serve to uphold outdated and racist ideas of the pre-modern world. Don’t do that in a rush to condemn Europe for its modern problems.”

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First & last: Mission

Title: Mission.

Fandom: Marvel, Captain America.

Ship: Brock Rumlow.

Word count: 421 words. 

Square: 7 “Mission”.

Rating: Teen.

Summary: Brock's first and last mission in HYDRA.

Major Tags: Mission, angst, guns, character’s death.

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First mission

2003, Syria.

Brock Rumlow was 20 years old.

The military boots were still new. The first mission was "simple" on paper: infiltration, asset recovery, and threat elimination at an arms dealer's compound outside Aleppo, Syria. He was sent with a small squad led by a more senior agent, but Rumlow already stood out. The trip was long, hot, and sweltering.

They travelled in a convoy disguised as medical supplies. During the night, the desert dust got into their bones. Brock slept with a knife in his hand.

“Paranoia?”

“Prevention," he replied.

The order arrived at dawn on the third day.

The target was hidden in an abandoned factory. It wasn't supposed to be a bloody mission... but it went awry.

A badly hit shot alerted the men inside. Hell opened up.

Bullets, screams, shrapnel.

Brock ran with his heart hammering in his ribs, crossing smoke and bodies. As he entered the center of the building, he saw one of his teammates trapped in the rubble. But that night, as he was cleaning the blood off his uniform in a rusty bucket, he looked into a broken mirror and knew something:

There was no turning back.

Last mission

2014, Triskelion, Washington, D.C.

Rumlow was now a high-ranking agent. Leader of STRIKE. S.H.I.E.L.D. considered him a valuable asset. But he wasn't just S.H.I.E.L.D. anymore.

It was HYDRA.

Not because of ideology. Not out of loyalty.

Efficiency.

HYDRA gave him freedom, gave him purpose. It allowed him to be what he already was: a predator.

His last mission :

"Project Insight.”

Three Helicarriers were ready to eliminate threats before they even drew breath against the new order.

He coordinated everything from the Triskelion. He had manipulated reports, kept tabs on Steve Rogers, restrained Natasha Romanoff, and maintained his facade as a loyal sidekick until the last second.

But it all fell apart when Captain America publicly rebelled. Rumlow did not hesitate.

If Cap is against us, let him go down with the building. 

He chased Sam Wilson through the halls.

He fought hand-to-hand with Natasha.

He received orders and executed them as always: with lethal precision. But I wasn't ready for the collapse.

When the Helicarrier fell... and the Triskelion started to burn... Rumlow was trapped between the collapsing floors.

His face exploded.

He felt the heat eat into his flesh.

Everything went up in smoke, fire, and silence. But he did not die.

He was dragged alive.

His body burned, but his hatred was intact. After that, only the monster remained.

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ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

🔥CEASEFIRE EVENTS..

.. DRONE ALERT last evening - a Hezbollah drone flew the border, trying to draw IDF reaction.  It did not attack.

.. ROCKET ALERT early this morning in a northern town - was set off by IDF forces use of an illumination flare on the border.  Not a rocket.

.. Reuters: Hezbollah lost more than 4,000 of its men in the war - more than 10 times its losses in the Second Lebanon war - but far less than Hamas.  This does not include the thousands injured and maimed by the pager and portable radio attack.

.. Lebanese sources: Most of the Lebanon-Syria border crossings attacked by Israel have been repaired.

.. Arab source: In the document concluded by Israel and the USA there are secret clauses related to Iran and this is what made the ceasefire in Lebanon possible.

🔹SYRIA CHAOS.. fleeing Hezbollah left piles of weapons behind in Syria, with multiple Iraqi and Afghan militias supported by Iran taking over their positions. Opposition groups which include ISIS and Kurds (not together) are attacking.  The Syrian Army backed by Russia air power is attacking everyone.  Turkey will likely join, attacking the Kurds.  Israel is NOT INVOLVED.

.. Today Russian Air Force jets began bombing villages that the rebels captured yesterday west of Aleppo.

🔹JUST FOR CONTEXT - SYRIA.. Last night the Syrian Assad regime attacked a school in the city of Yereko  in southern Idlib with heavy artillery.  Several children were killed and dozens injured on the spot.  Awaiting the UN condemnation, the EU threats, and the ICC warrants.  And see the next item below.

🔸HAMAS HOSTAGE DEAL NEWS.. A delegation of the Egyptian intelligence will visit Israel today as part of the ceasefire talks in Gaza per Lebanese media.

▪️PM COURT CASE.. Netanyahu is asking the court to hold a hearing regarding his security arrangements during his testimony. In addition, he requested that by Monday the Shin Bet and the court administration present to the judges the details of the security arrangements.  One of the issues is not only the security nor the time of the beginning of the testimony, but the pace:  A prime minister who testifies three times a week six hours a day is a reality-changing event.  A prime minister who testifies once a week for three hours, another story.

▪️SOCIETAL CONFLICT OR CHANGING PRIORITIES.. the coalition passed the first reading of a new law mandating the privatization of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation within two years, closing down the public funded broadcasting which includes Kaan news and Reshet Bet radio. If a buyer cannot be found in two years, the broadcaster will be shuttered completely and its intellectual property will revert to the government.

.. “bill’s explanatory notes say ‘the broadcaster’s current output does not justify its “extremely high” government budget and that the move is necessary to “increase competition” in the media market.’

.. The Attorney General’s Office strongly disagreed expressing concern given how many Israelis get their news through television, closing the public broadcasting corporation would minimize sources of news free from external influences and criticism of the government or broadcast of content that is not favorable to the government may lead to measures against private media.

.. The reverse site notes Israel no longer has any shortage of broadcast channels, TV, cable, satellite, and internet access, should not be spending tax shekels to fund a particular channel, puts the multiple private channels at a disadvantage competing against govt. money, and while the Attorney General states they are “free from external influence” - WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS?  

♦️GAZA - heavy IDF air strikes this morning in the north of Nuseirat, north Gaza.

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Honestly, I was thinking😊 I do get why some guys wanna marry more than one woman✨️. Life’s short, right? ⏳ You don’t stop living just because one chapter ends.

But what I can’t really wrap my head around is stacking relationships—like having multiple wives at the same time🙂‍↔️. Sure, religion might allow it 😀, but emotionally? That’s just messy🥳. For everyone🙂‍��️

I’ve got a friend whose dad married her mom as wife number two 👰. And—it didn’t last 💔. Now her mom’s remarried, living in the UAE 🇦🇪 with someone else😇. Meanwhile, her dad’s on wife number three 😅… families scattered🗺 all over: one with him🇹🇷, one in Aleppo 🇸🇾, another in Germany 🇩🇪. Like… how does that even work😇?

Back in my village 🏘️, yeah, men remarry—but usually after a divorce🕊 or if the wife passes away❤️‍🩹. People there don’t really go for the whole “multiple wives under one roof” thing 🚫🏠. But what really bugs me is how everyone’s cool with men moving on… but women? Nope. As if her love life’s supposed to end after one shot🙄

Why is it fine for a guy to be a serial husband 🕵🏻💍, but not okay for a woman🕵🏻‍♀️ to be a “serial wife”? If two people split, shouldn’t they both get a second shot? Or a third? 👀 kids grow up, get married, start their own lives 👶➡️🧑‍🦱➡️🏡. They’re not a reason to stay stuck.

Honestly, I don’t think getting married more than once is a bad thing 😇. Some relationships just don’t work out 🙌🏻. That’s not failure—that’s life.

And this generation? We’re not into staying miserable just for the sake of appearances 👏. We want real connection ❤️, and if that means starting over✨️? So be it🪄.

And me? I’ve always thought it would be kinda beautiful to have kids from different marriages 👩‍👧‍👦✨. A daughter from my first love😍, a son from my second love🥰. A home full of stories, names, faces and different vibes 🏡💫.

Imagine siblings from different dads and moms growing up together 🧒👧- same heart ❤️. A mom who loves them all 💕. A stepmom☺️ who’s actually kind 🌼💞. Why not😀?

Yeah, I know it sounds unrealistic. But still, I dream of that kind of life 🌙. I can’t see myself tied to one person forever👀—not unless it’s really right 🔒✨. I’d rather be alone than stuck with someone who doesn’t fit 🚫. At least alone, I’ve still got peace 💝🕊️.

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How do you distill the meaning of what happened in the last 10 days, as Syria’s rebels staged the greatest insurgent comeback in history to end 60 years of Baathist rule? How do you distill the liberation of Aleppo, one of the world’s oldest cities? How do you describe the freeing of Hama, a city that has been so thoroughly traumatized by Rifaat al-Assad’s rampage in the 1980s that it has waited 40 years to grieve its men, women and children? How do you capture the emotional resonance of watching church bells ring in Christian Sahnaya to the tune of “One, one, one, the Syrian people are one?” Or the sonorous tones of the deceased prominent rebel and former goalkeeper Abdel Baset al-Sarout singing the revolutionary song “Jannah Jannah” echoing in the heart of Umayyad Square in Damascus? The chants of hundreds of thousands gathered in Assi Square in Hama and around the Homs Clock Tower?

Kareem Shaheen

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by Ray McGovern Posted on December 04, 2024

This originally appeared at Consortium News.

A day after Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon last week the long dormant war in Syria reignited as jihadist forces seized the city of Aleppo and advanced virtually unhindered in its quest to overthrow the Syrian government until finally meeting resistance from the Syrian Army backed up by Russia. This is the last chance for neocons in the United States to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before Donald Trump, who tried to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, resumes the presidency in 49 days.

On the neocon list of ways to make the world safer for Israel, Iran originally occupied pride of place. “Real men go to Tehran!” was the muscular brag. But Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was persuaded to acquiesce in a less ambitious plan – to “do Iraq” and remove the “evil dictator” in Baghdad first.

As the invaders/occupiers got bogged down in Iraq, it seemed more sensible to “do Syria” next. With the help of “friendly services,” the neocons mounted a false-flag chemical attack outside Damascus in late August 2013, blaming it on President Bashar al-Assad, whom U.S. President Barack Obama had earlier said, “had to go.”

Obama had called such a chemical attack a red line but, mirabile dictu, chose to honor the U.S. Constitution by asking Congress first. Worse still for the neocons, during the first days of September, Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire by persuading Syria to destroy its chemical weapons under U.N. supervision.

Obama later admitted that virtually all of his advisers had wanted him to order Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria.

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Movie #2092 - Last Men in Aleppo (2017)

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The White Helmets Are A Propaganda Construct Contrary to what its multi-million dollar international PR campaign would have you believe, the "White Helmets" are not a group of volunteer search-and-rescue workers that sprang spontaneously out of the Syrian soil. When you peel back the layers of foreign financing and reveal the foreign intelligence operatives and murky lobbying groups at the heart of the organization, what you find is that the White Helmets are, in fact, a propaganda construct.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the Pick of the Week                           

See what's new in Blu-ray this week.

[yeswecancan]

Films in 2018 #29 Last Men in Aleppo, 2017. Directed by Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen and Hasan Kattan

★★★★★★★ - - -

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Documentary Feature

“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman “Faces Places,” JR, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda

“Icarus,” Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan

“Last Men in Aleppo,” Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen “Strong Island,” Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes

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But missiles and bombs do not teach, and are not beautiful.

Glenn Kenny, The New York Times

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Quick and Lazy Review - Sydney Film Festival Edition: Last Men in Aleppo (2017)

Quick and Lazy Review – Sydney Film Festival Edition: Last Men in Aleppo (2017)

Dir. Feras Fayyad and Steen Johannessen This is a film I think everyone should have to see. In particular, those like some members of my own family who can’t understand why we should have to take in Syrian refugees. It is a confronting and unflinching look at the state of the situation in Syria and what the men of the White Helmets sacrifice and see on a day to day basis. It’s unpleasant but…