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Bissan Rafe (Arabic: بيسان رافع ) is an American visual artist, animator and writer from Houston, Texas, living and working in the Netherlands. She established Nohra-Studio in Houston in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in various galler
Adam Bakri is an actor best known for playing the lead role in Hany Abu-Assad’s 2013 film Omar which made the 86th Academy Awards’s shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film.In 2016, he starred in Asif Kapadia’s adaptation of Ali and Nino as Ali Khan
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Mohammed Omer (born 1984) is a Palestinian journalist. He has reported for numerous media outlets, including: the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,; Al Jazeera; New Statesman; Pacifica Radio; Electronic Intifada; The Nation; Inter Press Servi
Suha was born in the West Bank in 1963 into an affluent Christian family who lived in Nablus and then Ramallah (both cities under Jordanian authority at the time). Suha`s father Daoud Tawil, an Oxford-educated banker, was born in Jaffa (now part of
Tarab Abdul Hadi (also transliterated Tarab ‘Abd al-Hadi) (1910 Jenin –1976 Cairo) was a Palestinian Muslim activist and feminist. In the late 1920s, she co-founded the Palestine Arab Women’s Congress (PAWC), the first women’s organization in Briti
Leila Khaled (Arabic: ليلى خالد, is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and an airline hijacker who was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by her fellow PFLP members. The
Ghassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني, April 9, 1936 in Akka, Palestine – July 8, 1972 in Beirut, Lebanon) was a Palestinian writer and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FPLP). on July 8, 1972 he wa
Hanan Kattan (born May 22, 1962) is a Jordanian-born, British-based film producer of Palestinian origin. She is also co-owner of online marketing agency EBS Digital and multi-media entertainment company Enlightenment Productions. She currently lives
Avshalom Feinberg (Hebrew: אבשלום פיינברג, October 23, 1889 – January 20, 1917) was one of the leaders of Nili, a Jewish spy network in Ottoman Palestine helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Hany Abu-Assad (Arabic: هاني أبو أسعد, born 11 October 1961) is an Israeli-born Palestinian film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film Paradise Now, and again in 2013, at the 86th Awards, for his
Moshe Levin (1897–1943), alias ‘Batlan’ and ‘Elisha’, was a Jewish socialist. He was a member of the Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) in Russia, before arriving in Palestine in 1919, where he joined the Socialist Workers Party. Levin contested