Birth: NULL/NULL/1960 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Nazareth in 1960; moved to New York in 1981, where he lived until 1993; was a guest lecturer at different universities and a writer in residence in Suny, Buffalo; directed two short films: Introduction to the End of an Argument and Homage by Assassination; moved to Jerusalem in 1994 to start a film program at Birzeit University sponsored by the European Commission; works as a playwright, director and actor; co-directed the documentaries ‘Introduction to the End of an Argument’ (with Jayce Salloum, 1990) and ‘War and Peace in Vesoul’ (with Amos Gitai, 1997); his works also include the feature films Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996), which won the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize Winner for Best First Feature at the 1996 Venice Film Festival and the New Director’s Showcase Special Jury Prize at the 1997 Seattle International Film Festival, Cyber Palestine (1999), and Divine Intervention (2002), which won several prizes, incl. the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and the Screen International Award at the European Film Awards, and was nominated for the Oscar (although the American Academy of Cinema in Hollywood rejected the nomination on the grounds that Palestine is not a “nation”).
