Abdallah Jamal AlKhatib, born in 1989 in Damascus, is a Palestinian-Syrian film director, writer, and human rights defender. He studied Sociology at the University of Damascus and worked at UNRWA before co-founding the Watad Center for Training and Development during the 2011 Syrian revolution. Honored as Peacemaker of the Year by German Greenpeace magazine in 2014 and awarded the Swedish Per Anger Prize for Human Rights in 2016, AlKhatib now resides in Germany. He focuses on writing and directing documentaries, including his award-winning "Little Palestine - Diary of a Siege", shown in over 50 countries, which won the Black Iris Award at the third edition of the Amman International Film Festival.