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Michel Khleifi

ميشيل خليفي

born 1950

Born in Nazareth in 1950 and raised there, he left school early to work in car repair, and in 1970 went to Belgium to study theatre and television directing at INSAS in Brussels, where he has lived since. His first feature, Fertile Memory (1980), was followed by Wedding in Galilee (1986), which won the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes in 1987, by Canticle of the Stones (1990) and by Route 181 (2003, with Eyal Sivan).

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document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs

Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory

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