{"id":8856,"date":"2013-07-10T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T06:25:50","slug":"the-freedom-theatre-graduate-in-award-winning-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/2013\/07\/the-freedom-theatre-graduate-in-award-winning-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom Theatre graduate in award-winning &#8220;Omar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eyad Hourani, graduate of The Freedom Theatre&#8217;s Acting School, stars in the film <em>Omar<\/em>,\u00a0a powerful\u00a0political thriller interwoven with a tragic\u00a0love story set against the backdrop of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The titular Omar is a thoughtful young baker in love with Nadia. When he agrees to go with Nadia\u2019s brother Tarek (Eyad Hourani), a senior militant, and their mutual friend Amjad on a mission to kill an Israeli soldier, it is partly to gain Tarek\u2019s respect so that he can ask for Nadia\u2019s hand in marriage. But that act of violence soon spirals out of control: Omar is arrested and tortured by Israeli forces, who attempt to turn him into a collaborator. Abu-Assad uses this tense set-up to fashion an ingenious twist on Othello that packs an unforgettable sting in the tail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Omar<\/em> is directed by\u00a0Hany Abu-Assad,\u00a0known for the 2005 award-winning film &#8220;Paradise Now&#8221;. <em>Omar<\/em> broke new ground as the first film fully funded by individual Palestinians and\u00a0Palestinian businesses. It\u00a0was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival\u00a0where it\u00a0received a standing ovation and\u00a0won the Jury Prize.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eyad Hourani acted in several productions during his time as an Acting School student, such as <em>While Waiting<\/em>, <em>Animal Farm<\/em>, <em>Fragments of Palestine<\/em> and <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>. He graduated from the Acting School in 2011 and has since appeared in Ashtar Theatre&#8217;s <em>Jasmin House<\/em>, as well as in the Shakespeare drama <em>Richard II<\/em> which toured to London&#8217;s Globe Theatre Festival. Eyad has also directed and acted in a wide-acclaimed short film, <em>C the C<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8859 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-10-21 at 9.44.46 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Screen-shot-2013-10-21-at-9.44.46-AM.png\" width=\"591\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyad Hourani, graduate of The Freedom Theatre&#8217;s Acting School, stars in the film Omar,\u00a0a powerful\u00a0political thriller interwoven with a tragic\u00a0love story set against the backdrop of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The titular Omar is a thoughtful young baker in love with Nadia. When he agrees to go with Nadia\u2019s brother Tarek (Eyad Hourani), a senior militant, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreedomtheatre.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}