Omar Amiralay是叙利亚最著名的纪录片导演，从70年代就开始拍摄纪录片，大多涉及到阿拉伯世界特殊而敏感的政治、宗教和民俗文化，作品多次被禁，本人也曾流亡海外多年。
A Flood in Baath Country
[TUFAN FI BALAD EL-BA’TH]
Directed by Omar Amiralay
Syria/France, 2003
Color. 46 min. Arabic with English subtitles.
In 1970, Omar Amiralay made a short documentary, Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam, in praise of the ruling Baath party’s project to construct an impress…