Hisham Zreiq

(1968-)

Palestinian film director

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Hisham Zreiq (Arabic: هشام زريق‎, Hebrew: הישאם זרייק‎; born 9 February 1968 in Nazareth), also spelled Zrake, is a Palestinian Christian of Israeli citizenship Independent filmmaker, poet and visual artist. He began working in computer art in 1994, and in 1996 started exhibiting his work in galleries and museums. 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 September 11 terror attacks. He uses his poetry and visual art in his films, as in Just Another Day, and was a member of the Culture Unplugged film festival panel. 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.