"The War Around Us is a powerful, deeply moving new documentary through the eyes of [...] two reporters, Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros." (The Electronic Intifada, 2012)
"The documentary showed the devastation as a model for what the future is going to hold based on this status quo." Fen Magazine Contributor Dina Duella sits down with director Abdallah Omeish, director of The War Around Us. (Fen Magazine, 2013)
Tasbeeh Herwees asks six questions, and Abdallah Omeish, Director of 'The War Around Us' answers. (NeonTommy, Annenberg Digital News, 2012)
"One of the hardest hitting documentaries I’ve seen in years, Abdallah Omeish’s The War Around Us deserves not only distribution so audiences can see it, but also an Oscar nomination." (Jesther Entertainment, 2012)
"it was received well, [...] it was produced with quality, [...] it ultimately got its point across. [...] We have a winner: Documentary on Gaza invasion outdoes the rest at California film fest" (Sixteen Minutes to Palestine, 2012)
"A montage of raw footage from the war--images of carnage, decimated buildings, and persistent bomb blasts--is interspersed between candid, emotional interviews with both journalists as they share what it was like being the sole Western news reporters on the ground." (OC Weekly, 2012)
"Gripping. Deeply moving. By far, the finest, most accomplished record of one of the most heinous massacres of the 21st century." (Variety Arabia)