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Palestinian Director Hany Abu-Assad Voices Disappointment At West For Lack Of Action Over Gaza: “The Masks Are Off”
Palestinian Director Hany Abu-Assad Voices Disappointment At West For Lack Of Action Over Gaza: “The Masks Are Off”
Over two hours, he discussed his trajectory from Nazareth to the Netherlands back to the West Bank and then onto Hollywood, and filmography spanning Ford Transit(2003), Paradise Now(2005), The Courier(2012), Omar(2013), The Idol(2015), Idris Elba and Kate Winslet starrer The Mountain Between Us(2017) and Huda’s Salon(2021). Questioned on the ferocious violence of Hamas’s actions on October 7, which have been defined as atrocities by NGO groups such as Human Rights Watch (which has also since condemned Israel’s military operation in Gaza), Abu-Assad bats back against generalizing about Palestinians as a people. A project with TriStar Pictures to direct an adaptation of the popular comic book Infidel, about an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities that feed off xenophobia, also fell through.
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