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AMUDE, northeast Syria — Mohammed Rashid Fateh was 12 years old when he went to the movies for the first time on Nov. 13, 1960.
“I was so excited I cannot tell you. I wore my clothes the night before and couldn’t wait for it to be tomorrow,” Fateh recalled on a recent afternoon in the predominantly Kurdish town of Amude in northeastern Syria. His joy was short lived. Halfway through the screening of the Egyptian horror film “The Ghost of Midnight,” “there was a loud explosion and the screen went white.” Smoke filled the theater hall amid cries of “Fire!”
