In 1981 the Lebanese-American George Azar crosses the Syrian border into Lebanon. He carries an inexpensive camera and a desire to change the way the Arab world is portrayed by the US media. He begins taking photographs. But within a few months Israel attacks Lebanon and war break out. Suddenly immersed in a world of gunfire and terror in an unfamiliar city, George chronicles the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) guerrillas, teenage snipers and civilians living through what becomes one of the bloodiest summers in the history of the modern Middle East. Now, 30 years on, he returns to Beirut, retraces his steps and unpicks the stories and people behind some of his most iconic photographs - those that were published and many of which unseen at the time. 

Mariam Shahin is a writer, a director and a documentary producer since 1988. In 2002 she wins the Australian Walkley Award for Current Affairs Reporting for her report on the Siege of Jenin. She realizes "Gaza Fixer", among the nominees for the Rory Peck Award in 2007 and "Two school in Nablus", winner of the British Royal Television Society Education Award and the Japan Prize in Education. In 2012 "Free Running Gaza" wins on the occasion of Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival.

George Azar has been reporting the Middle East as a photographer and a documentary maker for thirty years. Director of "Gaza Fixer", "Two school in Nablus" and "Free Running Gaza", he has realised over forty movies and television programs as a director and cinematographer. His photographs have been published on the front covers of newspapers such as the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Economist, Newsweek, The Philadelphia Inquirer.