Rashid Masharawi (also: "Rashid Mashrawi") ( ar, رشيد مشهراوي) is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

film director, born in Gaza in 1962 to a family of refugees from Jaffa. He grew up in the Shati refugee camp. Rashid Masharawi lives and works in Ramallah, where he founded the Cinema Production and Distribution Center in 1996 with the aim of promoting local film productions. He also sponsors a mobile cinema, which allows him to screen films in Palestinian refugee camps. Other projects include the annual Kids Film Festival and major workshops on film production and directing. Rashid Masharawi regularly organises readings and discussion forums at the Al-Matal cultural centre. Through his documentaries and feature films, he has made a name for himself as a film artist and has received several film awards.

Films

*''Travel Document'' (1987) *''The Shelter'', (1989) Fictio
''Dar o dur'' (1991)
*''The Magician'' (199

*'' Curfew (1994 film), Curfew'' ''(Hatta Ishaar Akhar)'' (199

At the

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he was awarded the Unesco Film Award for ''Curfew'' (1994) and received the audience and critics’ prize for the best film at the Montpellier Film Festival. *''

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

'' (1996) *''Rabab'' (199

*''Tension'' (199

*''Love Season'' (2001) *' (2002), feature fil

https://cineuropa.org/en/film/44283/] won a number of awards. *''Live from Palestine'', (2002) Docu. 57 min

*''Homemovie'' (2002) *''Checkpoint'' (2002) *''Waiting'', (2005) Film / TV, Feature film
Film Review: Rashid Masharawi's "Waiting"
by

Ali Abunimah Ali Hasan Abunimah ( ar, علي حسن ابو نعمة, Arabic: ; born December 29, 1971) is a Palestinian-American journalist who has been described as "the leading American proponent of a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian confl ...

, 8 May 2006,

the Electronic Intifada ''The Electronic Intifada'' (''EI'') is an online Chicago-based publication covering the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It describes itself as not-for-profit, independent, and providing a Palestinian perspective. History ''EI'' was founded in ...

*'' Arafat, my Brother'', Film, (2005) / TV, Documentar

*'' Laila's Birthday'' (2008) *''Land of the Story'' (201

*'' Palestine Stereo'' (2013) *''Letters From Al Yarmouk'' (201

*''Writing On Snow'' (201

References

External links

An Interview with the Palestinian Filmmaker Rashid Masharawi
by Fareed Armaly, April 2002
Rashid Masharawi - filmmaker
by

Monique Roffey Monique Roffey (born 1965) is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist. Her novels have been much acclaimed, winning awards including the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, for ''Archipelago'', and the Costa Book of the Y ...

, Paul Prillevitz, and Khaled Hourani, 19.06.2006 *
Rashid Masharawi, Buthina Canaan Khoury, Nahed Awwad, Hazim Bitar, Annemarie Jacir and Ahmad Habash by Kamran Rastegar
Bidoun, Fall 2006

Films

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