Haita Izam

She was born around 2004, as her father recalls, in Al-Ashrafia, Aleppo, Syria. She came to Lebanon in 2012 and settled in Ouzai Beirut with her parents and four siblings. In 2014, her older sister Sossi drowned in the sea. In 2016, her mother gave birth to a baby girl whom the parents named Sossi.

Cedra, who used to attend school in Syria, found a different destiny in Beirut. In 2014, her father, who is in the country illegally, asked her to help provide for the family and she found herself selling chewing gum on the streets of Beirut. In 2016, she was spotted by Capharnaüm’s casting director.

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