A State of Passion Documentary Screening

Date and Time: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm EDT

Location: Science Center Hall A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA. Registration not required.

Join us for a screening of Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi’s documentary A State of Passion which captures ongoing human rights violations and the war in Gaza through the eyes of British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah. 

After 43 horrific days working around the clock and under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, Dr. Abu-Sittah emerged to shed light on the sixth war he has experienced while lending his medical expertise for humanitarian assistance. With news footage of him pale and shell-shocked reverberating around the world, he speaks of the unfathomable horrors he witnessed, from lacerated bodies to amputations without anesthetics, orphaned children with no surviving family, deliberate targeting of medics, hospital facilities, water and sewage systems, evidence of chemical weapons use, indiscriminate killing disproportionately affecting children, and widespread life-altering injuries among civilians.