Video: Waad al-Kateab on the hopes, fears and challenges ahead for a new Syria

Two years after our conversation with Waad al-Kateab about the desperate plight of Syrian refugees, we return to have a very different conversation.

Less than a week after the dramatic and unexpected collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal reign, Syrians are beginning to dream once again of a future they believed had died.

Waad al-Kateab and her family had settled in the UK, though they continued to fight to speak on behalf of refugees and the Syrian revolution which they refused to give up on no matter how bleak the situation seemed.

In her Oscar-nominated film ‘For Sama’, Kateab documented the last days of her city of Aleppo, besieged by Assad’s forces for five years and reduced to rubble.

Today, she counts the days until she can return to her childhood home. You can watch the full interview below.