Hisham Zreiq | |
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Born | Nazareth, Israel | 9 February 1968
Other names | Hisham Zrake |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, film director, producer, animator, screenwriter, software architect and poet |
Years active | 1994–present |
Awards | Al-Awda Award for Best Documentary Film 2008 The sons of Eilaboun |
Website | http://www.hishamzreiq.com |
Hisham Zreiq (Arabic: هشام زريق, Hebrew: הישאם זרייק; born 9 February 1968 in Nazareth), also spelled Zrake, is a Palestinian-Israeli Independent filmmaker, poet, animator and visual artist. He began working in computer art in 1994, and in 1996 started exhibiting his work in galleries and museums.[1] In 2007 he filmed his first documentary, The Sons of Eilaboun,[2] and in 2008 he created the short film Just Another Day,[3] dealing with the life of Arabs living in western world after the September 11 terror attacks.[4] He uses his poetry and visual art in his films, as in Just Another Day,[5] and was a member of the Culture Unplugged film festival panel.[6] 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.[7] In 2023 he started a music project called 'Goddess Asherah' [8]