Kais Nashef is an Israeli

Arab citizens of Israel

Arab citizens of Israel refers to citizens of Israel who are not Jewish, and whose cultural and linguistic heritage or ethnic identity is Arab....

Translation: Nashef, from the city of Tayibe

Tayibe

Tayibe is an Israeli Arab city in central Israel, 12 kilometers east of Kfar Saba. In 2007, it had a population of 36,800. Tayibe is part of the Triangle.-History:...

 in the Palestinian Triangle

Triangle (Israel)

The Triangle , formerly referred to as the Little Triangle, is a concentration of Israeli Arab towns and villages adjacent to the Green Line, located in the eastern Sharon plain among the Samarian foothills; this area is located within the easternmost boundaries of both the Center District and...

, who holds the Israeli citizenship, and is not very well known in the Palestinian art scene, graduated two years ago from the Beit Zvi

Beit Zvi

Beit Zvi is an acting school located in Ramat Gan, Israel. Graduates of the school are much in demand in the Israeli theater world.-History:...

 Institute of Performing Arts.
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-Palestinian

Palestinian people

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 actor born in Tayibe

Tayibe

Tayibe is an Israeli Arab city in central Israel, 12 kilometers east of Kfar Saba. In 2007, it had a population of 36,800. Tayibe is part of the Triangle.-History:...

, Israel.

Nashef studied acting at the Beit Zvi

Beit Zvi

Beit Zvi is an acting school located in Ramat Gan, Israel. Graduates of the school are much in demand in the Israeli theater world.-History:...

 Institute of Performing Arts. He later played the lead role in Paradise Now

Paradise Now

Paradise Now is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category....

, a film about two would-be suicide bombers in the West Bank.

Filmography

• Paradise Now
  Paradise Now
  Paradise Now is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category....
  
   (2005) .... Said — Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
• Alenbi Romance (2005)
• The Nativity Story
  The Nativity Story
  The Nativity Story is a 2006 drama film based on the nativity of Jesus starring Keisha Castle-Hughes and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Filming began on May 1, 2006 in Matera, Italy and in Morocco. New Line Cinema released it on December 1, 2006 in the United States and one week later on December 8 in the...
  
   (2006) .... Benjamin
• Djihad! (2006) (TV) (as Kais Nashef) .... Luqman
• AmericanEast
  AmericanEast
  AmericanEast is a 2007 American drama film about Arab-Americans living in Post-9/11 Los Angeles. The story examines long-held misunderstandings about Arabic and Islamic culture, and puts a human face on a segment of the U.S. population whom most Americans know nothing about, but who today are of...
  
  (2007) .... Omar
• Parashat Ha-Shavua .... Amir El Nashaf (24 episodes, 2006–2008)
• Body of Lies
  Body of Lies (film)
  Body of Lies is a 2008 American spy film directed by Ridley Scott. Set in the Middle East, it follows the attempts of the CIA and Jordanian Intelligence to catch "al-Saleem", a fictional jihadist terrorist...
  
   (2008) .... Mustafa Karami
• Winds of Sand (2008) .... Militant
• Denn die Seele ist in deiner Hand (2009) (TV)

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