Josepha Ivanka (Joshka) Wessels is a senior researcher at Lund University, Sweden. She is an anthropologist, human geographer and ethnographic filmmaker with 21 years of research experience on Syria. Currently she works on migration and Syrians in diaspora, Syrian documentary filmmaking and video activism prior and after the Syrian Revolution. She is in the final stages of publication of a monograph about the history of documentary filmmaking and digital video activism in Syria. She also works on sustainable development, water heritage and the environment in the Middle East and North African (MENA) Region.