Author Archives: Issa Touma

In 2012, photographer Issa Touma was forced to leave his home in Aleppo. Reluctant to leave behind his country, friends and family, he traveled back and forth several times until the East Aleppo was taken back by the regime (SAA) in December 2016. Notes from Aleppo follows Issa Touma rediscovering Aleppo after his arrival. In […]

A Syrian artist returns to his hometown to survey the damage and finds out what it’s really like to live, and paint, in a war zone. Directed by Issa Touma, Floor van der Meulen and Thomas Vroege

Winner of the European Short Film Award at the European Film Awards. In August 2012, Syrian photographer Issa Touma awoke to the dawn of the rebel uprising in the city of Aleppo. He spent the next nine days holed up in his apartment, filming the emerging civil war outside. “It’s 8:15 AM”, says Touma, recording […]

In this movie we try to tell you a story of a city through the remains of a piano its also The First Performance art at Aleppo city : Performance art is not a theater nor movie. The actions do not have to be played like in the theater. It is rather the action of […]