Upholding the Palestinian image in Israeli cinema: an interview with Mohammad Bakri.(Interview)

Mohammad Bakri was born in 1953 in the village of Al-Bi'ni, Galilee, in the North of Israel. His journey from a small farming village, as one of twelve children born to illiterate parents, has been a long and difficult one. Bakri's film career has taken his image all over the world, but he still calls Israel home. Lately, however, home has not been so comfortable for the actor/director. Since producing his controversial 2002 documentary, Jenin Jenin, Bakri has found himself virtually blacklisted in Israeli cinema.

In a way, he's come full circle. In the Seventies, when