Biography

Nisreen Faour (Muna Farah)

Actress/director Nisreen Faour was born in the village of Tarshiha and traveled to the U.S. to study arts and performance at the age of 16.  Since then, she has gained expertise in theatre, cinema, and on television.  On stage, she has performed in more than 15 plays for adults and children, at theatres all over the world.  She played in Sarhan and the Seniorita, which won the Best Acting award at the Monodrama Festival in 1996; Nono colors from the deaf theater, which won first place in the Public Stage Festival in 2002; Don Kichote for Haifa international festival; Albab Alaali by the European Union production, written by the Jordanian writer Hisham Yanis; and Happy Woman by DarioFu and Franka Rama, produced by the national Palestinian theater and directed by Kamel al Basha. 

Her first film was In the Eighth Month with director Ali Nassar.  This was shown in the largest theaters both domestically and abroad in Los Angeles, Paris, Carthage, Tunisia, Iran, and at the Nazareth Film Festival, where she received a Medal of Excellence for her distinguished work.  Her second film as a leading actress is Jamr Alhikaya (Whispering Embers).  On television, her first roles were in the series Family Deluxe and Mishwar Al-Joma.  A documentary film directed by Iraqi artist/director Mohammed Tawfiq features some stories about Nisreen’s life.

Faour practiced drama mentoring in schools and with foundations for people with special needs, and she took part in preparing women groups for plays.  She recently finished her studies in theater directing at Haifa University.  She directed and acted in the play The Princess That Hates Men, and directed Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, which won an award in the Akko Festival in 2006. 

For the past two years, Faour has focused on accomplishing her dream of increasing awareness of quality of life and the state of the environment by being a yoga teacher and Deksha giver, which she studied at The Oneness University in India.  Faour is also the head of a non-official organization called “NoWar.”

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