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At the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), she stars in Annemarie Jacir<\/a>\u2019s Palestine 36<\/a> and Malek Bensma\u00efl<\/a>\u2019s fiction debut The Arab, which world premiered at the Dutch festival on Saturday. On Sunday evening, she appeared in an IFFR \u201cBig Talk\u201d together with Italian actress and director Valeria Golino<\/a> (Rain Man<\/a>, Portrait of a Lady on Fire<\/a>, Hot Shots!<\/a>, Fuori<\/a>).<\/p>\n But of course, politics and identity also came up. Growing up as a Palestinian woman, with \u201ca huge inheritance of injustice,\u201d she said acting became a \u201cspace of freedom\u201d from pressure. Her goal was, \u201cbeing a woman that is making choices that go against the traditions that are inherited \u2026 from one generation to another, trying to exist as a woman for myself and not for the others, in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You likely know Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass (Munich) as Marcia Roy from the HBO hit drama Succession. At the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), she stars in Annemarie Jacir\u2019s Palestine 36 and Malek Bensma\u00efl\u2019s fiction debut The Arab, which world premiered at the Dutch festival on Saturday. On Sunday evening, she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2261501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2261500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hiam-Abbass-on-Seeing-Role-Picking-as-a-Duty-to-Palestinian.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261502,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261500\/revisions\/2261502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}