“I cannot unsee what I saw. I cannot unhear the cries and the screams that I heard and unsmell the smell of festering wounds.”
–Ghassan Abu-Sittah, A State of Passion

I wasn't expecting my hands to shake so much while watching directors and documentary filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi's documentary, “A State of Passion.” The documentary debuted at the Cairo International Film Festival in November 2024.