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A graduate of Damascus University in English Literature, she has authored several Arabic novels\u2014including Freefall (\u0633\u0642\u0648\u0637 \u062d\u0631) and Inheritors of Silence (\u0648\u0631\u062b\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0645\u062a)\u2014and has worked in film and television production across Damascus, Beirut, and Montreal. Her current project, The Ninth Step, is a hybrid feature film combining fiction, documentary, and photo-roman aesthetics. Set between Damascus and Montreal, the film follows a woman who reconstructs fragments of her past\u2014love, betrayal, and disappearance\u2014through the architecture of both cities. Using still photography, voiceover, and layered sound design, The Ninth Step explores how urban space becomes an archive of trauma and desire, and how remembering itself becomes an act of survival. Blurring the lines between personal testimony and cinematic essay, Abeer Dagher Esber\u2019s<br \/>\nwork continues to investigate the fragile geographies of belonging, questioning how memory inhabits both the body and the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19025,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"role":[],"cities":[137],"data_type":[141],"joint_mentorship":[],"class_list":["post-19027","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artists-25-26-en","artists-current","discipline-arts-visuels-en","discipline-media-arts","discipline-visual-arts","cities-montreal-en","data_type-artist"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abeer Dagher Esber &mdash; MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/abeer-esber\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abeer Dagher Esber &mdash; MAI | Montr\u00e9al, arts interculturels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Abeer Dagher Esber is a Syrian writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. 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