The filmography of Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass looms as loftily in Hollywood and the West as it does in the Arab world. Yet, surprisingly, Abbass did not actively set out to become an actress.

Palestinian-French actress Hiam Abbass and her filmmaker daughter Lina Soualem touch down at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday with documentary Bye Bye Tiberias. The intimate work ...

Hiam Abbass and Lina Soualem in 'Bye Bye Tiberias.' Photo Credit: Frida Marzouk Hiam Abbass and Lina Soualem in 'Bye Bye Tiberias.' Photo Credit: Frida Marzouk “Bye Bye Tiberias,” starring Emm ...

With Bye Bye Tiberias, Soualem focuses on several generations of women in her family, beginning with her mother, Succession star Hiam Abbass, who, as a young woman, left her home country of ...

Director Lina Soualem compellingly opens the gate to past sorrows in this essay documentary about her actress mother, Hiam Abbass, and her maternal forebears. The title gives a clue to what ...

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Hiam Abbass (“Succession”), Abderrahmane Sissako (“Black Tea”), Zar Amir Ebrahimi (“Holy Spider”), Adam Bessa (“Ghost Trail”), Yumna Marwan (“The Veil”) and “Anatomy of a ...

Hiam Abbass with actors cast in Ramy’s season-three episode “Egyptian Cigarettes,” for which she served as consulting producer. Photo: Ramy Youssef Hiam Abbass with actors cast in Ramy’s ...

In the first film Mouna and Lina Soualem made with their mother, Hiam Abbass, personal attachments went out the window: “There’s no time for that.” Share full article From left: Mouna ...

MARRAKECH, Morocco — 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 ...

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