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Kais Nashef ( ; born 1978) is a Palestinian and German actor from Tayibe , Israel. Nashef studied acting at the Beit Zvi Institute of Performing Arts. He later played the lead role in Paradise Now , a film about two would-be suicide bombers in the West Bank. In 2018, he won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival for his role in Tel Aviv on Fire . Nashef — a reedy, chain-smoking, 27-year-old Arab Israeli — plays the role of the tormented Said, one of two young Palestinian men sent to blow themselves up on a Tel Aviv bus. al-'Eyissa, Osama (1 February 2006). "مغمورون عرب إلى الأوسكار" [Unknown Arab to the Oscars] (in Arabic). A sympathetic portrayal of a suicide bomber is possibly the most contentious role an actor could take on. But Palestinian actor Kais Nashef, who played the lead in Paradise Now, doesn't see it that way. The final 15 in the competition are being judged by a panel including festival guests, film critic and cult writer Jack Sargeant and Palestinian actor Kais Nashef (who stars in the suicide bomber drama Paradise Now screening on Friday night).1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Kais Nashef ( Arabic : قيس ناشف) is a Palestinian actor [1] from the town of Taibe in Israel. He frequently travels to the U.S. Kais is part German from his mother's side and speaks fluent German as well. His father was Palestinian. Education: Acting study at " Beit Zvi " the School for Stage Arts and the Yoram Levinishtain Acting School in Tel Aviv. He was working as a barman when he won the role of Said in Paradise Now, with the role of a suicide bomber and all the reasons behind the aches of the Palestinian people. Where they live - in the specific case of the Palestinians - they're all surrounded and caged in cities which they cannot leave. And it is all because of the Israelis and what they did to them."
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Kais Nashef ( ; born 1978) is Palestinian German actor from Tayibe, Israel. - Palestinian actor born in Tayibe , Israel.Nashef studied acting at the Beit Zvi Institute of Performing Arts.He later played the lead role in Paradise Now , a film about two would-be suicide bombers in the West Bank.Nashef — a reedy, chain-smoking, 27-year-old Arab Israeli — plays the role of the tormented Said, one of two young Palestinian men sent to blow themselves up on a Tel Aviv bus. al-'Eyissa, Osama (1 February 2006).A sympathetic portrayal of a suicide bomber is possibly the most contentious role an actor could take on.But Palestinian actor Kais Nashef, who played the lead in Paradise Now, doesn't see it that way.The final 15 in the competition are being judged by a panel including festival guests, film critic and cult writer Jack Sargeant and Palestinian actor Kais Nashef (who stars in the suicide bomber drama Paradise Now screening on Friday night).
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Kais Nashef ( , ; born 1978 ( 1978 ) ) is an Israeli actor.
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Palestinian actor Kais Nashef ( Arabic : قيس ناشف ; Hebrew : קאיס נאשף ; born 1978 ( 1978 ) ) is a Palestinian actor.
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