(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian student Abdullah al-Khatib achieved first place among the students of the media faculty in the department of radio and television in Jordanian Yarmouk University in the city of Irbid with an average of 91.4%, higher than all of his peers, in a celebration held in the university campus a few days ago in the presence of a large number of students and parents.
Al-Khatib dedicated his achievement to his martyred brother Huzafa who died one week before he graduated from the architecture department in Aleppo during the first months of the Syrian revolution.
Abdullah al-Khatib comes from the city of Binesh, an icon of the Syrian revolution, in Idilb countryside. In 2010, he started university in Tishreen University in Latakia entering the department of English literature. With the start of the revolution, he participated in the peaceful demonstrations and continued until2013 when he stopped going to university except for exams because of the security situation.
Due to the monitoring and harassment from the regime intelligence, Abdullah was forced to leave Syria for Turkey where he remained for 7 months before coming to Jordan to study his dream field and to become, as he says, the voice of right, freedom and defend people’s rights and especially the Syrian revolution.
In Jordan, the son of Binesh joined Yarmouk University specializing in radio and television although this degree takes four years, but he managed to complete it in 3 years. He said, “I always kept Syria in sight, my family, my martyred brother who was killed a few days before his graduation from the architecture department in Aleppo University,” and he was according to Abdullah, “the first martyr in the university of Aleppo and the fourth martyr from Binesh.”
Al-Khatib graduation project was a dramatic film he called “the doors are shut”. The film, which gained first place at the level of advanced films in the faculty, speaks first and foremost of the situation of detainees, their tragic conditions, the situation of detainees who enter al-Assad’s prisons and only leave its locked doors corpses, and when the doors close on those detainees they lose hope to leave or inhale a breath of freedom.
Al-Khatib indicated that he was inspired for the idea of the film from the story of a university student who was detained, tortured, and investigated with on the basis of all possible charges from instigating protests, protesting, escaping from training camps, helping others to dissent as an indicator by al-Khatib that they just want to pin charges onto any person, and when the student does not confess to anything, he is killed in cold blood.
In his moment of happiness in his achievement, Abdullah al-Khatib could not forget for a moment his martyred brother Huzafa who paid with his life the price of demanding freedom. Huzafa was one of the founders of the coordination of Binesh, and the first to send footage to al-Jazeera of the protests, and other incidents in the first army attack on Binesh.
Al-Khatib indicated that his brother went to film the attack and could not continue filming due to the intensity of the bullets and random bombing. He then left the city with friends from the coordination for them to be stopped at a regime checkpoint in the city of Shia city of Shalikh and he was killed in Ramadan in the morning of 09/08/2011.
About his feelings during the graduation ceremony, “I felt as if I will not graduate despite everything and that is because my brother did not graduate,” but in contrast he was convinced, “that what I did will not go to waste,” indicating that he isolated himself during the graduation ceremony and lived his own special atmosphere so that nothing will confuse him from his dream, “of a free and dignified Syria.”
Al-Khatib dedicated his achievement to his martyred brother Huzafa who died one week before he graduated from the architecture department in Aleppo during the first months of the Syrian revolution.
Abdullah al-Khatib comes from the city of Binesh, an icon of the Syrian revolution, in Idilb countryside. In 2010, he started university in Tishreen University in Latakia entering the department of English literature. With the start of the revolution, he participated in the peaceful demonstrations and continued until2013 when he stopped going to university except for exams because of the security situation.
Due to the monitoring and harassment from the regime intelligence, Abdullah was forced to leave Syria for Turkey where he remained for 7 months before coming to Jordan to study his dream field and to become, as he says, the voice of right, freedom and defend people’s rights and especially the Syrian revolution.
In Jordan, the son of Binesh joined Yarmouk University specializing in radio and television although this degree takes four years, but he managed to complete it in 3 years. He said, “I always kept Syria in sight, my family, my martyred brother who was killed a few days before his graduation from the architecture department in Aleppo University,” and he was according to Abdullah, “the first martyr in the university of Aleppo and the fourth martyr from Binesh.”
Al-Khatib graduation project was a dramatic film he called “the doors are shut”. The film, which gained first place at the level of advanced films in the faculty, speaks first and foremost of the situation of detainees, their tragic conditions, the situation of detainees who enter al-Assad’s prisons and only leave its locked doors corpses, and when the doors close on those detainees they lose hope to leave or inhale a breath of freedom.
Al-Khatib indicated that he was inspired for the idea of the film from the story of a university student who was detained, tortured, and investigated with on the basis of all possible charges from instigating protests, protesting, escaping from training camps, helping others to dissent as an indicator by al-Khatib that they just want to pin charges onto any person, and when the student does not confess to anything, he is killed in cold blood.
In his moment of happiness in his achievement, Abdullah al-Khatib could not forget for a moment his martyred brother Huzafa who paid with his life the price of demanding freedom. Huzafa was one of the founders of the coordination of Binesh, and the first to send footage to al-Jazeera of the protests, and other incidents in the first army attack on Binesh.
Al-Khatib indicated that his brother went to film the attack and could not continue filming due to the intensity of the bullets and random bombing. He then left the city with friends from the coordination for them to be stopped at a regime checkpoint in the city of Shia city of Shalikh and he was killed in Ramadan in the morning of 09/08/2011.
About his feelings during the graduation ceremony, “I felt as if I will not graduate despite everything and that is because my brother did not graduate,” but in contrast he was convinced, “that what I did will not go to waste,” indicating that he isolated himself during the graduation ceremony and lived his own special atmosphere so that nothing will confuse him from his dream, “of a free and dignified Syria.”
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