Mohammad Al Attar

Born in Damascus in 1980, he studied literature and theater in Goldsmith, University of London. Since 2011, his writing prowess is almost exclusively directed at the events of the Arab Spring and the ensuing bloody clashes that rage unrelentingly.

His first work, “Withdrawal”, was performed in a cramped apartment in his hometown, his second, “Could You Please Look into the Camera”, followed a massive wave of arrests in his country under Assad; it is a text made up of testimonies by tortured prisoners. The whole of his work draws from the Syrian writing tradition and has been widely performed in festivals, culminating in “While I was waiting”, which was performed in the 70th Avignon Festival and in the OCC.

In recent years he has been working with his compatriot, director Omar Abusaada; their theatre balances between fiction and documentary.

Presently residing in Berlin, he is recognized as one of the most important chroniclers of the Syrian war.