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MS SUMIA SUKKAR For Immediate Release B7 Media secures film and television rights to Sumia Sukkar’s acclaimed novel of Syrian conflict   – The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War follows B7 Media’s successful BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of a modern literary masterpiece –   London, 6 July 2015 :   The film and television rights to The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War , the debut novel by Sumia Sukkar set during the outbreak of the Syrian conflict, have been acquired by B7 Media.   Independent production and distribution company B7 Media has announced it has acquired an option to develop a motion picture or television serial based on Sumia Sukkar’s acclaimed debut novel of the Syrian conflict, The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War .   Following B7’s critically acclaimed radio dramatisation of the novel for BBC Radio 4 in 2014, featuring Farshid Rokey, this new film adaptation will look to explore this powerful and...

Dear TLS - I was glad to see a review in your latest issue (January 24) by Mona Tabbara , of The Boy From Aleppo Who Painted The War , in your In Brief section. I am the editor and publisher of Sumia Sukkar's debut novel, which is why I was particularly struck by this review. Sukkar's novel is about the Syrian civil war between 2012 and early 2013 - each chapter marks an increasingly terrible moment of escalation, from the cutting of electricity to a final gas attack outside of Damascus.  The book, filled with intertextual allusion, features many characters, but the narrator is Adam, a young man on the Autistic Spectrum. Despite the fact that Ms Sukkar is the youngest-ever British Muslim woman to publish a novel - and despite the fact this is a political novel with much to say about terrorism, violence, faith, and art - and also develops a portrait of a very loving Muslim family coping with mental health issues and also wider social struggle - anyway, despite all of th...