Hala Mohammad

Hala Mohammad (Arabic: هالة محمد; born 1959) is a Syrian poet and former filmmaker, living in exile in France since 2011.

After studying cinema at the Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis in France, she started working in the Syrian film industry.

It shows former inmates of this prison Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Ghassan al-Jaba'i and Faraj Bayrakdar talking about their experience and walking among the historic ruins of Palmyra.

[3] The film was broadcast in 2010 on Al Jazeera English TV, and Mohammad was persecuted by the Syrian secret police.

[7] Belonging to the politically outspoken generation of contemporary Arab poets, she is known for her public appearance as writer and intellectual.