Nisreen Faour

Nisreen Faour was born in 1972 in Ma'alot-Tarshiha

Nisreen Faour was born on August 2, 1972, in Ma'alot-Tarshiha. Her family had been expelled from the village of Jalin, on the western slopes of Mount Meron, which was captured and destroyed in 1948. As a teenager she was a youth guide at her school and joined a delegation to the United States.

She studied acting at the Kibbutzim College acting school from 1991 to 1994. In 2006 she studied directing at the University of Haifa, and in 2008 she studied yoga in India.

Faour acts in Arabic and English. She performed with theaters such as Al-Shorouk, Beit HaGefen and Al-Midan, and played Maria in the one-woman play by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, directed by Kamal Basha. She also directed stage works, including an adaptation of Anna Karenina in 2006.

On screen she appeared in films by Ali Nassar and in the television series Family Deluxe and Mishwar Al-Joma. In 2009 she starred in Amreeka by Cherien Dabis as Muna, a Palestinian single mother who emigrates to Illinois. The role won her the Muhr Award for Best Actress in Dubai and an Independent Spirit Award nomination. She has also taught theater and yoga.