Join us for the screening of Syrian film maker, Mohanad El-Hariri's first film, "A room with millions of walls" at 7 pm in Townhouse library followed by an open discussion with the film maker and WAGBA in the first floor gallery. This week we are serving chicken noodle soup!

About "A room with millions of walls"

All the world’s satellites and surveillance equipment cannot observe the reality of what is happening in Syria. Or at the least, it cannot transmit the reality to the world, and this at a time when we actually don’t need more than just one eye to see the truth, an honest human eye like the eye of Marie Colvin. We must then ask ourselves what makes a person sacrifice his eye and also his life just to transmit the voice of an unfortunate people to all the corners of the world? This acts is a big victory for humanity.

My memory is full of millions of pictures, voices, and names that I collected through my 30 years of living in Syria. It is like a room with millions of walls that surround me from all sides while I live by myself in exile. Images and voices from this new city (Cairo) mix in my head with images and voices of shelling in my home country, and I have thought long about what I could possibly do to help the Syrian people. I am not a journalist as Marie Colvin nor would I do any good as a soldier on the ground, and so I began to write this scenario, which is my first cinematic film as director.