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Hisham Zreiq

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “award-winning palestinian-israeli independent film maker and visual artist”. Today it says “palestinian -german filmmaker”. "terror" appeared 1 time in the opening in 2010. Today: absent from the opening.
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Hisham Zreiq ( Arabic : هشام زريق , Hebrew : הישאם זרייק ; born 9 February 1968), also spelled Zrake , is an Arab Israeli independent filmmaker , poet , animator , musician and visual artist . He began working in computer art in 1994, and in 1996 started exhibiting his work in galleries and museums. In 2007 he filmed his first documentary, The Sons of Eilaboun , and in 2008 he created the short film Just Another Day , dealing with the life of Arabs living in western world after the September 11 terror attacks. He uses his poetry and visual art in his films, as in Just Another Day , and was a member of the Culture Unplugged film festival panel. In 2018 Zreiq contributed to the book An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba by writing a chapter based on the interviews from his documentary The Sons of Eilaboun . In 2022 he finished Don't Cry (film) and animated short film, that won over 30 awards. In 2023 he started a music project called 'Goddess Asherah' "Hisham Zreiq" . In Abdo-Zubi, Nahla; Masalha, Nur (eds.). An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “award-winning palestinian-israeli independent film maker and visual artist”. Today it says “palestinian -german filmmaker”. "terror" appeared 1 time in the opening in 2010. Today: absent from the opening. Read the current article and compare.
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award-winning palestinian-israeli independent film maker and visual artist

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palestinian -german filmmaker

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