Amre Sawah

Writer, dramaturg, journalist, theatre and film director Amre Sawah graduated from Damascus Higher Insitute for Dramatic Arts in 2002. Amre took part in several regional and international playwrights residencies and his play Family Secret (2006) was first directed in Damascus by French director Catherine Boskowitz, and published in both Arabic and French later the same year. In 2016, the play was directed in Bordeaux, where Amre sought asylum in 2015. Last year he also made his stage directing debut in French with the play Under the Bridge written by Abdel Rahmane Khallouf and presented at Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux. Since 2012, he has been the producer of two shows for Radio Souriali, Days of Pearls and Misevaluation. Amre´s first collection of short stories titled A Room of Roses, was published in 2006.