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Hany Abu-Assad at an event for The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006)

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Hany Abu-Assad

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  • Born
    October 11, 1961 · Nazareth, Israel

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    • Hany Abu-Assad a Palestinian/Dutch movie director and writer. From the famous movies Abu-Assad has directed so far are : Rana's Wedding (2002), Paradise Now (2005) and Omar (2013), The mountains between us (2017). He has been nominated twice for Academy Awards for his movies 'Paradise Now' in 2006 and 'Omar' in 2014.
      - IMDb mini biography by: Hesham Ashour

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  • Cinema is a great opportunity to let you live with a character you wouldn't really want to be near. And it gets you thinking more. So most people appreciated that.
  • As long as some people believe they have a chance to create a Jewish state on all of the land, there will be trouble. And as long as they have the power, weapons and money, some people think they just have to wait until the right moment to extend Jewish settlements onto the whole of the land, and extend the ethnic cleansing. As long as those people feel they can succeed, they will keep trying. Ultimately, the Palestinians have no control. When Israelis accept that Palestinians have equal rights to the land, it will change everything.
  • As a person, I am against any religious movement becoming a political one.
  • Cars kill more people in a day than terror has in years, but people are so afraid of terror. We accept the danger from cars, not terror, and yet something always causes terror. We ignore why and focus only on the consequences. To prevent it, we must think about what creates the evil.

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