Birth: 1/1/1950 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Nazareth in 1950; grew up in Nazareth; dropped out of school early and worked in car repairs; was twice imprisoned by Israel the late 1960s; in 1970 went to Belgium where he enrolled at INSAS film school to study television and theater directing; received a theater, radio and TV diploma from INSAS in 1977; lives in Brussels since; began working with Belgian TV RTFB, filming a series of documentaries on the Arab-Israeli conflict; directed his first full-length film, Fertile Memory, in 1980; his next full-length work, Wedding in Galilee (1986); won the Cannes Film Festival International Critics Award 1987, the Grand Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival 1987, and the prize of the Carthage Film Days 1988; also directed Canticle of the Stones (1990), L’Ordre du Jour (1992), Tale of the Three Jewels (1994), Rana’s Wedding (2002), and Route 181, Fragments of Journey in Palestine-Israel (together with Eyal Sivan, 2003) and the documentary Forbidden Marriages (1995); works as script-writer, director and producer for TV, films and theater in Brussels and teaches at INSAS film school.
