article author: GABRIELE MALVISI Mon, 2026-06-22 15: 06 LONDON: The one unchanged feature noticed by Tawfik Sabouni as he stepped back inside Syria’s notorious Sednaya prison was not the silence, but the smell. “The first thing that struck me when I went back was its size. I had never imagined it to be so immense, ” the Syrian Belgian director told Arab News. “Only one thing remained exactly as I remembered it: the smell. That particular smell of the prison, deeply embedded in my memory, was still there, unchanged. ” Main category: Lifestyle Tags: Syria
‘The Other Side of the Sun’ director on returning to Sednaya and the telling of a collective trauma
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