Director

Fajr Yacoub

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 3224781

Known for: Directing

Born: March 5, 1963

Age: 62

Place of birth: Palestine

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1998 - 2023

Years active: 26

Also known as

Fajer Yacoub • فجر يعقوب • Fajer Yakoub

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Director (8)

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Biography

Fajr Yaqoub was born in Yarmouk camp in 1963 to Palestinian parents from Tira Haifa. He studied cinema and theater and graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Sofia in 1994. He became a member of the Swedish Writers Union in 2018. Some of his cinematic and fictional works won several awards, the most famous of which are the Katara Award for Arabic Fiction, which he won in 2021, and the Golden Falcon Award for Best Short Narrative Film at the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival in the Netherlands in 2010. He participated as a jury member in many Among the festivals such as: Rabat Festival for Author Cinema, Oran International Arab Film Festival, Cairo Festival for Arab Media, Film Competition from the Emirates, Muscat International Film Festival and Dubai Arab Media Forum.

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