Mohammad Bakri, the renowned actor and filmmaker who sought to share the complexities of Palestinian identity and culture through a variety of works in Arabic and Hebrew, died on Wednesday. He was 72.
Bakri was best known for directing Jenin, Jenin, a 2003 documentary about an Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank city the previous year during the second Palestinian intifada. The film, focusing on the wide destruction and heartbreak of the city’s Palestinian people, was banned by Israel.
