| “Omar Amiralay has specialized in documentary films presumably due to his profound conviction that life is much richer than a hasty passer-by might believe. In all his works Amiralay carries on a dialogue with reality. In this way he provokes questions and doubts and records people, events and transformations that would otherwise be forgotten.” Ahmad Ali az-Zain, Lebanese film critic "Par un jour de violence ordinaire" is Amiralay’s homage to his friend Michel Seurat, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Jihad in 1995. And in "Il y a tant de choses à raconter" Amiralay interviews the Syrian dramaturg Saadallah Wannou several months before his death, making this video into testimony of a generation that grew up with the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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