An unlikely love story blossoming in the thick of war provides the backdrop to a new documentary that raises questions about how modern media cover conflict. “Birds of War” traces the growing relationship between Syrian activist-cameraman Abd Alkader Habak and Lebanese journalist Janay Boulos, who was working for the BBC in London as Syria’s civil war unfurled.What began as a strictly professional relationship — on-the-ground activists were vital for international media whose journalists found it difficult to operate in Syria — develops into something more…
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