Sayed Kashua (Writer)

Sayed Kashua - Forever Scared

Sayed Kashua always feels he doesn't belong. The Jews don't like him because he's an Arab. The Arabs don't like him because he's successful. The Arabs think he's a collaborator. The Jews think he's a drunk. He is always viewed as an Other, and he's always scared.

Release Date2009-07-01

Charactersd Himself

Arab Labor

Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.

Release Date2007-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count43

Vote Count2

The Screenwriter

Mockumentary based on the life of Israeli-Arab writer and journalist, Sayed Kashua, creator of the series 'Arab Labor'. Kataeb, Palestinian writer and journalist living in Israel, loses interest in writing his successful series and instead wants to write a series on a 40 year old going throw a mid-life crisis he is experiencing. As a Palestinian and Israeli he confronts with questions about identity, national definitions, as well as his relationships with his family, and the society and country he lives in.

Release Date2015-10-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Private

Mohammed lives with his wife and five children in a house located between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. The house becomes a highly strategic location and is occupied by the army. But despite the invasion of Israeli soldiers, Mohammed refuses to leave.

Release Date2004-08-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

Dancing Arabs

A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.

Release Date2014-07-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count40

Let It Be Morning

Sami was at his parents’ house back in the village, when peace began to break out. He had gone there with his wife and kid for his brother's wedding . Back in the village people told him, “There’s no place like home,” and asked when he’d be coming back, but deep down Sami knew that he had forgotten. You can’t be away for that long without forgetting something.

Release Date2021-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count8