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Filmmaker · Palestine

Kassem Hawal

Kassem Hawal was born in 1940 in Iraq and trained in theatre at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. He founded a troupe in Basra, wrote and acted in films, then left Iraq around 1970; passing through Beirut, he stayed there and made documentaries for the Palestinian organisations. He then worked in Libya and settled in the Netherlands, has written novels and essays on cinema, and has again filmed in Iraq, where he was in 2019 an adviser for culture.

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