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Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; Arabic: محمد بكري‎, Hebrew: מוחמד בכרי‎; also spelled Mohammed or Muhammad) is an Israeli Arab actor and director of Palestinian descent , known well throughout the Levant, and the greater Arab world. Bakri was born in the village of Bi'ina in North-West Israel in 1953. He went to elementary school in his hometown and received his secondary education in the nearby city of Acre. He studied acting and Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University in 1973 and graduated three years later. Bakri began his professional acting career in plays in several... MORE

Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; Arabic: محمد بكري‎, Hebrew: מוחמד בכרי‎; also spelled Mohammed or Muhammad) is an Israeli Arab actor and director of Palestinian descent , known well throughout the Levant, and the greater Arab world. Bakri was born in the village of Bi'ina in North-West Israel in 1953. He went to elementary school in his hometown and received his secondary education in the nearby city of Acre. He studied acting and Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University in 1973 and graduated three years later. Bakri began his professional acting career in plays in several theaters in Israel and the West Bank notably the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, the Haifa theater and al-Kasaba theater in Ramallah. During this period he became well known as a star in Palestinian film and Israeli television. His one-man plays, "The Pessoptimist," 1986, "The Anchor," 1991, "Season of Migration to the North 1993," and "Abu Marmar," 1999, were performed as often in Hebrew as in Arabic, a reflection of his early wish to "tell the truth of Palestinian history – and tell it first and foremost to Israelis." After a few years of acting in Palestinian and Israeli film, Bakri began to act in international films LESS