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- MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Thirty years ago, Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass left her home to pursue her dreams of being in the movies, joining generations of women in her family who were shaped by exile and “learned to leave everything and start anew.”
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Nov 27, 2023 · Thirty years ago, Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass left her home to pursue her dreams of being in the movies, joining generations of women in her family who were shaped by exile and...
Jun 27, 2024 · The family was expelled from their original home in Tiberias in 1948, following the declaration of the state of Israel. Embodying the experience of displacement most of all is Abbass’s aunt...
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Jan 12, 2024 · The documentary may be understated, with its long dialogue-free stretches. But the distractions that pull Abbass’s stare away from her daughter’s lens give Bye Bye Tiberias a pointedly...
Sep 11, 2023 · The intimate work takes the mother and daughter back to the Arab village, situated within Israeli borders in the Lower Galilee, which Abbass left behind in the early 1980s to pursue her acting...
Nov 27, 2023 · MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Thirty years ago, Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass left her home to pursue her dreams of being in the movies, joining generations of women in her family who were...
Jun 11, 2024 · Now, for the first time, she is appearing as herself, in a documentary directed by her daughter, Lina Soualem. Bye Bye Tiberias reflects on Hiam’s fraught decision to leave the region for Europe as a young woman. She didn’t return home again until after Lina was born in 1990.
