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# Hamza Al-Khateab

Actor. Born in Aleppo, Syria.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2461575

## Biography

Hamza Al-Khateab is a Syrian doctor and activist who appears as himself in the 2019 documentary *For Sama*. The film, co-directed by his wife Waad al-Kateab, documents their life in besieged eastern Aleppo during the Syrian civil war, where he managed al-Quds Hospital, one of the last remaining medical facilities in the area.

Al-Kateab was born and raised in Aleppo. He trained and worked as a doctor, establishing and running the hospital from 2012 until the end of the Battle of Aleppo in 2016. He is also credited as a consultant on the film under the name Zahed Katurji and has appeared as himself in an episode of the television series *Frontline*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *For Sama* (2019), Fi1m 88, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/for-sama.md)

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