Hany abu assad biography

Hany Abu-Assad (also Hani Abu As'ad) is a Dutch-Palestinian film director. Born in Nazareth, Israel, he moved to the Netherlands as a young man, where he began his filmmaking career. A producer and director of both documentaries and feature films, Abu-Assad in his work incisively portrays the lives of those engulfed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his homeland. In 2005, he won international acclaim for his film, Paradise Now, which tells the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers.

PERSONAL HISTORY

Hany Abu-Assad a secular Muslim, was born on 11 October 1961 in Nazareth, Israel, where he grew up in a wealthy family amid the chaos of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His father operated a longstanding family transportation and delivery business, which had advanced from a stable of camels to a fleet of vans.

In 1981 Abu-Assad's uncle persuaded him to immigrate to the Netherlands, where Abu-Assad studied technical engineering in Haarlem. After wor