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Maisa Abd Elhadi
Maisa Abd Elhadi ( ar, ميساء عبد الهادي, born 15 November 1985) is an Palestinian Arab actress. Abd Elhadi won the best actress award at the Dubai Film Festival in 2011. She was reportedly wounded by Israeli forces while taking part in a peaceful demonstration in the city of Haifa on 9 May 2021 protesting against forced expulsions of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Selected filmography * '' Eyes of a Thief'' (2014) * ''3000 Nights'' (2015) * ''The Worthy'' (2016) * '' The Angel'' (2018) * '' The Reports on Sarah and Saleem'' (2018) * ''Tel Aviv on Fire'' (2018) * '' Baghdad Central'' (2020) * ''Huda's Salon ''Huda's Salon'' is a 2021 Palestinian internationally co-produced thriller film written, directed, and produced by Hany Abu-Assad. It stars Ali Suliman, Samer Bisharat, Maisa Abd Elhadi and Manal Awad. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Tor ...'' (2021) References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazareth
Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In its population was . The inhabitants are predominantly Arab citizens of Israel, of whom 69% are Muslim and 30.9% Christian. Findings unearthed in the neighboring Qafzeh Cave show that the area around Nazareth was populated in the prehistoric period. Nazareth was a Jewish village during the Roman and Byzantine periods, and is described in the New Testament as the childhood home of Jesus. It became an important city during the Crusades after Tancred established it as the capital of the Principality of Galilee. The city declined under Mamluk rule, and following the Ottoman conquest, the city's Christian residents were expelled, only to return once Fakhr ad-Dīn II granted them permission to do so. In the 18th century, Zahir al-Umar transfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Angel (2018 American Film)
''The Angel'' is an Israeli spy thriller film directed by Ariel Vromen and starring Marwan Kenzari and Toby Kebbell among others. It is an adaptation of the non-fiction book ''The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel'' written by Uri Bar-Joseph. It is a fictional account of an Ashraf Marwan, a high-ranking Egyptian official who became a double agent for both countries and helped achieve peace between the two. Plot During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel conquers and occupies large areas of land including the Sinai Peninsula which then (and now) belonged to Egypt. On September 3, 1973, Ashraf Marwan meets Arab terrorists outside Rome International Airport, with a missile launcher that he smuggled into Italy in his suitcase. He tells the terrorists that he must leave immediately, as he is an Egyptian diplomat who cannot be discovered at the place of the attack, while the insurgents aim the launcher at a commercial airliner that is heading to Israel. Three years earlier, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Palestinian Actresses
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=none, ), are an ethnonational group descending from peoples who have inhabited the region of Palestine over the millennia, and who are today culturally and linguistically Arab. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the territory of former British Palestine, now encompassing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (the Palestinian territories) as well as Israel. In this combined area, , Palestinians constituted 49 percent of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus some 600,000 Israeli settlers, which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Births
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States space exploration programs, United States or the Soviet space program, Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is Brazilian presidential election, 1985, elected president of Brazil by the National Congress of Brazil, Congress, ending the Military dictatorship in Brazil, 21-year military rule. * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is Second inauguration of Ronald Reagan, privately sworn in for a second term as Presidency of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States. * January 27 – The Eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huda's Salon
''Huda's Salon'' is a 2021 Palestinian internationally co-produced thriller film written, directed, and produced by Hany Abu-Assad. It stars Ali Suliman, Samer Bisharat, Maisa Abd Elhadi and Manal Awad. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021. Cast * Ali Suliman as Hasan * Samer Bisharat as Said * Maisa Abd Elhadi as Reem * Manal Awad as Huda Production In February 2020, it was announced Ali Suliman and Maisa Abd Elhadi had joined the cast of the film, with Hany Abu-Assad directing from a screenplay he wrote. Principal photography was suspended on 20 March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and resumed on 15 July 2020. Production on the film was suspended again, with production concluding by December 2020. Release ''Huda's Salon'' had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2021. Prior to, IFC Films acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film. References External links * *Huda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baghdad Central (TV Series)
''Baghdad Central'' is a British crime thriller television series set in Iraq and first broadcast in 2020. It was based on the 2014 novel by Elliott Colla, and adapted by Stephen Butchard. It was directed by Alice Troughton. The executive producer was Kate Harwood Plot The series is set in Iraq in 2003, shortly after the ousting of Saddam Hussein. It centres on a former policeman, Muhsin al-Khafaji ( Waleed Zuaiter), as he tries to find his missing daughter, Sawsan ( Leem Lubany). He is mistakenly arrested and tortured by United States troops but then recruited by a former British policeman, Frank Temple (Bertie Carvel), to become a police officer in the Green Zone. Main cast * Waleed Zuaiter as Muhsin al-Khafaji * Bertie Carvel as Frank Temple * Clara Khoury as Professor Zubeida Rashid * Leem Lubany as Sawsan * July Namir as Mrouj * Tawfeek Barhom * Charlotte Spencer * Corey Stoll as John Parodi * Neil Maskell as Douglas Evans Recurring cast * Fady Elsayed as Ibrahim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Aviv On Fire
''Tel Aviv on Fire'' (Hebrew: תל אביב על האש, ''Tel Aviv Al Ha'Esh'') is a 2018 internationally co-produced comedy-drama satire film directed by Sameh Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti section, where Kais Nashef won the Best Actor award. The Israeli premiere was at the Haifa International Film Festival, where the film won the Best Film and Best Screenplay awards. It was selected as the Luxembourgish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot Salem (Kais Nashef), a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, is a low-level production assistant on the soap opera ''Tel Aviv on Fire'' in Ramallah. The show, which is popular with both Palestinians and Israelis, tells the story of a Palestinian spy who falls in love with an IDF officer. Asi ( Yaniv Biton), who staffs the checkpoint Salem must pass through ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reports On Sarah And Saleem
''The Reports on Sarah and Saleem'' is a 2018 international co-production drama film directed by Palestinian filmmaker Muayad Alayan. Plot The plot centres on an extramarital affair between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman, Sarah and Saleem, both of whom are married. Sarah is a Jewish Israeli who owns a cafe in West Jerusalem, while Saleem is a Muslim Palestinian bakery delivery man from East Jerusalem. The second half of the film focuses on the personal and political fallout of the couple's affair, in which both of them are investigated by the authorities after Saleem is taken in by the Israeli army and brutally interrogated. Sarah's husband, David, is in the army. Cast *Adeeb Safadi, as Saleem * Sivane Kretchner, as Sarah * Ishai Golan, as Sarah's husband, David *Maisa Abd Elhadi, as Saleem's wife, Bisan * Kamel El Basha, as Abu Ibrahim *Hanan Hillo (aka Hanan Al Hillo), as Maryam Production The director The film is Palestininian filmmaker Muayad Alayan's second feat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worthy
''The Worthy'' (Arabic: المختارون, alMukhtarun) is a 2016 Arabic thriller film directed by Ali F. Mostafa, and produced by Image Nation. The movie was released on 23 February 2017 in the Middle East. Plot The Worthy is a narrative film that describes what will happen in a post-apocalyptic future where political conflicts go out of hand. The story begins with a truck driver that goes by the name of Shoaib (also known as Abu Eissa) picking up a stranger. The stranger warns him of what danger is to come due to these conflicts taking frightening twists. Shoaib listens to the man's advice and takes his two children Eissa and Maryam to seek shelter. One of the political parties decides to make matters worse by contaminating the water supply. Most of the population dies out of fear and hunger in the upcoming years; however Shoaib and his family along with a seven others find shelter with clean water in an abandoned airplane factory. One night, Shoaib, Eissa, his righthand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel (country)
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3000 Nights
''3000 Nights'' is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Mai Masri. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film focuses on a Palestinian woman, who whilst in jail, gives birth to a son. It was selected as the Jordanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. Plot Layal is a young schoolteacher who lives with her husband, Farid in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, Palestine. They are preparing to leave for Canada in search of a new life when Layal is arrested and falsely accused of helping a teenage boy suspected of attacking a military checkpoint. When she refuses to testify against the boy in court, Layal is charged with being an accomplice and sentenced to 8 years in prison despite the staunch defense put up by her human rights defense lawyer. Layal is transferred to a high-security Israeli women's prison where she encounters a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
