Hisham Zreiq

Hisham Zreiq
Born (1968-02-09) 9 February 1968 (age 56)
Nazareth, Israel
Other namesHisham Zrake
Occupation(s)Visual artist, film director, producer, animator, screenwriter, software architect and poet
Years active1994–present
AwardsAl-Awda Award for Best Documentary Film
2008 The sons of Eilaboun
Websitehttp://www.hishamzreiq.com

Hisham Zreiq (Arabic: هشام زريق, Hebrew: הישאם זרייק; born 9 February 1968), 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, 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.[2] He uses his poetry and visual art in his films, as in Just Another Day,[3] and was a member of the Culture Unplugged film festival panel.[4] 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.[5] In 2023 he started a music project called 'Goddess Asherah' [6]

  1. ^ "Hisham Zreiq". OneFineArt. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Hisham Zreiq, Erlangen, Germany". Festival Focus. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  3. ^ "Hisham Zrake (Zreiq)". Artwanted.com. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  4. ^ Culture Unplugged Film Festival
  5. ^ Zreiq, Hisham. "10: The Sons and Daughters of Eilaboun". In Abdo-Zubi, Nahla; Masalha, Nur (eds.). An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba. ISBN 9781786993502.
  6. ^ "Goddess Asherah". Bandcamp.com. Retrieved 12 June 2024.