Feras Fayyad: The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees | TED Fellows

翻译人员: Meiqi Jia 校对人员: Thomas Tam

[SHAPE YOUR FUTURE]

［塑造你的未来］

Society has a set of stories it tells itself

对于难民们的身份与样貌，

about who refugees are and what they look like.

社会已经有了既定的印象。

但是让我来告诉你一个不一样的故事。

But let me tell you a different story.

我的故事。

My story.

I'm a filmmaker and a refugee

我是电影导演，一个来自叙利亚 北部小村庄的难民。

from a small village in northern Syria.

In our village, growing up, there was no stable electricity supply.

从小，我们的村庄里就没有稳定的供电。

We spend most of our nights around gas lanterns

我们大部分的夜晚都是围绕煤气灯，

and told stories about Syrian mythological superbeings

听着叙利亚神话英雄 保护弱势群体的故事度过的。

that protected the vulnerable.

I was a boy who loved the stories of superheroes.

我是个热爱超级英雄故事的男孩，

But later on, these stories shifted to tales of heroes

但是这些英雄故事 象是逐渐变成了阿萨德独裁下，

that my family has to face under the Assad dictatorship.

我的家庭需要面对的的英雄事迹。

One of my uncles was killed under torture.

我的一个叔叔死于酷刑之下。

My father had to burn his books before they were even published

为了保护我们，

在叔叔的书籍出版前， 父亲便把它们都烧毁了。

in order to protect us from the regime.

He burned his dreams along with his books.

随着书籍的烧毁，叔叔的梦想也破灭了。

These stories must not be forgotten,

我的父母告诫我们， 不可以忘記這些故事。

my parents insisted.

The stories stopped being a pastime.

这些故事不再用于消遣，

It became a form of resistance.

他们转变成了一种反抗。

I studied filmmaking and focused on documentaries.

我学习了电影制作，并且专注于纪录片。

Documentary filmmaking, you see, became my way of resistance.

纪录片也逐渐成为 我表示反抗的一种方式。

I documented stories of Syrians who opposed the Assad regime,

我记录了那些叙利亚人 反对阿萨德政权的故事。

in 2011, when the revolution started.

革命于2011年开始。

I was arrested, tortured

我被逮捕、拷打、并遭受性侵犯。

and sexually assaulted.

When I was released, I left Syria.

我被釋放後，离开了叙利亚。

I was traumatized

我受到了心理创伤， 并且尝试过结束自己的生命。

and tried to end my life.

My wife stood by me and helped me hang onto life.

我的妻子陪伴在我身边， 给予了我生活的希望。

But as a result, I stopped making films.

但是也因为如此，我停止了制作电影。

Despite my arrest and torture,

即使经历了逮捕与拷打，

I took many risks in order to see my family.

我仍冒着许多风险与我的家人团聚。

So a year later, when the Assad regime lost control of the north of Syria,

所以，一年之后，当阿萨德政权 失去了北叙利亚的统治权，

I was able to visit my hometown.

我才探访我的家乡。

There, I met many inspiring Syrians,

在那里，我遇见了 很多鼓舞人心的叙利亚人，

real life superheroes who stayed behind to save lives.

他们是现实世界里拯救生命的超级英雄。

I was captivated by how genuine they were.

我被他们的真诚所打动了。

Without planning, I took out my camera and started filming,

我在没有任何计划下， 便拿出摄像机，开始拍摄

I felt inspired.

我受到了启发。

These real-life superheroes saved the filmmaker in me.

这些现实世界里的超级英雄， 拯救了我內在的那个电影制作人。

Khalid was one of the heroes in my first feature film,

哈立德是我第一部剧情片 “终守阿勒波”的一位英雄。

"Last Men in Aleppo."

Khaled was a simple man who dreamed to be a firefighter,

他是个梦想成为消防员的普通人。

but he couldn't follow his dream.

但是他卻没能实现梦想， 只成为了油漆工。

So he worked as a house painter.

When the war destroyed his city, he found his calling.

当战争摧毁了他的城市， 使命感使他加入了“白头盔”。

He joined the White Helmets,

a group of Syrian volunteers who formed a civil defense organization

一个由叙利亚志愿者组成的民防组织，

救助那些困于被炸弹摧毁房屋下的平民。

to rescue civilians from their bombed homes.

Khalid saved hundreds of lives.

哈立德救了上百个生命。

While doing that, he died as a hero.

在救助生命的同时，他作为英雄、牺牲了。

The second hero is Dr. Amani Ballour,

第二位英雄是我在我第二部电影 “山洞”　里提到的

whose story I told in my second film, “The Cave.”

阿曼尼·巴洛尔医生。

It's a story of an extraordinary woman

这是一位非凡的女性 在东古塔建设地下医院 。

who founded an underground hospital in eastern Ghouta.

She treated injured children, victims of atrocities,

在弹雨枪林下，她治疗了受伤的孩童

while bombs fell around them.

和肆虐的受害者。

As a female scientist,

作为一位女性科学家, 她抗衡了父权制度与性别歧视,

she defied sexism and patriarchy

to save civilians who suffered two attacks with chemical weapons.

去救助那些遭受两次化学攻击的平民。

And then there are the two superheroes who saved my own life.

接下来的两位英雄救了我的生命。

Khalil Ma'touq and Anwar al-Bunni.

哈立德·马图克和安瓦尔·布尼。

They are the lawyers who took up my case

两位律师接手了我的案子，

and got me out of the most notorious torture facilities in Damascus.

并帮助我逃离了大马士革最臭名昭著的拷问机关。

While Anwar now is in Germany, fighting for justice for Syrian refugees,

当安瓦尔在德国， 为叙利亚难民争取自由的时候，

Khalil was arrested in 2012 because of his work.

哈利德在2012年被逮捕了。

We don't know anything about him

由于叙利亚政府持续否认他的逮捕，

because the Syrian regime continues to deny his arrest,

我们没能得到关于他的任何信息。

but his work is not in vain.

但他所做的事情不會是徒劳的。

It's for Khalil I faced my torturer in Germany.

为了哈立德，我在德国 与拷打我的人对峙。

In June 2020 I gave my testimony

2020年六月，

我在科布伦茨的法庭上，

at the first trial on Syrian state of torture

为以色列政府的拷问提供了供词。

before a German court in Koblenz.

It is for Amani and Khalid

正是因为阿马尼和哈立德， 我才得以成为今天的电影制作人。

I'm still the filmmaker today.

They inspired me to create a new cinematic universe of superheroes,

他们对不公義的反抗使我受到启发，

based on their quest to end injustice.

并开创了充满超级英雄的电影宇宙。

Creating this cinematic universe has not been an easy journey.

创造这个电影宇宙并不简单。

It's been a brutal struggle

在电影行业，这是对抗 残酷种族主义和歧视的一種斗争。

against racism and discrimination in the film industry,

an industry dominated by people who think they know how the audience,

这个行业的人认为他们已足够了解观众，

知道他们想看什么样题材的电影——

how you want a film about Syrians to be,

how you want superheroes or refugees to look.

叙利亚超级英雄或者难民的样子。

But refugees look just like me.

但是难民和我长得一样。

These refugees were superheroes

这些难民是反抗原状 和刻板印象的超级英雄。

who defied the status quo and stereotype.

So I will not stop. I owe it to them.

所以我不会停止归功于他们。

I owe it to my daughter, the young refugee child.

也归功于我年幼的难民女儿，

To tell the stories of superheros

去讲述那些和她长相一样的超级英雄的故事。

who look just like her.

For her, I will continue to resist.

为了她，我会继续反抗。

Thank you.

谢谢。