Awards

• Winner of Press Freedom Prize by Reporters Without Borders 2016 (France)
• Winner of Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation (Qatar).
• Winner of Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation 2023 (Qatar)

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""This is Hadi al-Abdullah. A few years ago, he was studying to be a nurse. But when war broke out in Syria, he took a different path. He chose to join antigovernment protests and tell the world the story of an uprising that became a civil war. Years of conflict turned him from an eyewitness into a frontline war reporter. This new role of his brought added risk, for himself, and for his friends and colleagues. Sometimes they would go towards the bombs, sometimes the bombs would come towards them."" —New York Times documentary ""Dying to Be Heard: Reporting Syria's War"" ""I read Critical Conditions in one sitting. It was so engrossing, vivid, and both painful and uplifting to read. Hadi Abdullah has managed to convey the agony, and the ecstasy of life lived trying to effectively report on the armed conflict in Syria. It is a testament to the human spirit, to the will to survive, and the despair of loss. Hadi is not only an extraordinary journalist, reporter, and witness, but a philosopher and poet as well. His text is brutal but also poetic and reflective. A wonderful addition to the literature on Syria’s long revolution, Critical Conditions is a perfect accompaniment to the film produced by another journalist (and rebel) caught up in the Siege of Aleppo,, Waad Alkateab's film For Sama."" —Dawn Chatty, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, Oxford University

""This is Hadi al-Abdullah. A few years ago, he was studying to be a nurse. But when war broke out in Syria, he took a different path. He chose to join antigovernment protests and tell the world the story of an uprising that became a civil war. Years of conflict turned him from an eyewitness into a frontline war reporter. This new role of his brought added risk, for himself, and for his friends and colleagues. Sometimes they would go towards the bombs, sometimes the bombs would come towards them."" —New York Times documentary ""Dying to Be Heard: Reporting Syria's War""

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Hadi Abdullahis Syrian reporter and activist. Born in Homs in 1988 he rose to prominence in Syria in 2011 and 2012 when he covered the siege of Homs at the hands of the Syrian regime. In 2016 he won the prestigious Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize in the citizen journalist category. He currently resides in Homs in Syria and has worked for various Syrian opposition networks, including Syria TV. He is active on Instagram and Telegram. Alessandro Columbuis Senior Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Westminster. Originally from Sardinia, Alessandro learned Arabic in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, and earned his PhD in Arabic literature from the University of Edinburgh. Hislatestpublicationis Zakariyya Tamir and the politics of the Syrian short story Modernity,gender and authoritarianism published by IB Tauris. He won the 2023 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understandingfor his translation of Zakariyya Tamir's Sour Grapes, published by Syracuse University Press.

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