Abbass

Performances by a Freida Pintos Miral, Haim Abbass as the head mistress of a girls' school and Alexander Siddiq as Miral's father are compelling, as are cameos by Vanessa Redgrave and Willem Dafoe, who also attended.

Regina Weinreich: Miral Screens at the United Nations General Assembly Regina Weinreich 2011

Performances by a Freida Pintos Miral, Haim Abbass as the head mistress of a girls' school and Alexander Siddiq as Miral's father are compelling, as are cameos by Vanessa Redgrave and Willem Dafoe, who also attended.

Regina Weinreich: Miral Screens at the United Nations General Assembly Regina Weinreich 2011

Lemon Tree is also a courtroom drama in which a Palestinian woman (Hiam Abbass, The Visitor) fights to keep her lemon grove when the Israeli Defense Minister (Daron Tavory) moves next door and consents to its destruction.

Dan Lybarger: Home in Exile: An Interview With Eran Riklis Dan Lybarger 2011

Miral's sheltered life within the walls of the Dar Al-Tifel orphanage/school is shattered in 1987 by the Intifada, and she must choose between violent resistance against Israel with her activist boyfriend (Omar Hetwally) or the peaceful route of education advocated by the founder of Dar Al-Tifel, Hind Husseini (The Visitor's Hiam Abbass).

Jonathan Kim: ReThink Interview: Julian Schnabel, Director of Miral (VIDEO) Jonathan Kim 2011

Lemon Tree is also a courtroom drama in which a Palestinian woman (Hiam Abbass, The Visitor) fights to keep her lemon grove when the Israeli Defense Minister (Daron Tavory) moves next door and consents to its destruction.

Dan Lybarger: Home in Exile: An Interview With Eran Riklis Dan Lybarger 2011

The station receives between 70 and 100 calls a day, says station executive director Ali Abbass Hamoudi, 42.

Women opening up to Baghdad radio station 2005

Some used Feili Abbasi, after Abbass son of Ali ibni Aby Taleb fourth Khailef, some used Feili Alawee after Ali the Khalif ans some used Feili Abu ghadareh, and some just feili.

languagehat.com: FAILI. 2004

Abbass said the possibility of secession was blocking economic aid to the mostly agricultural islands, since donor countries were awaiting the outcome of postponed presidential elections.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

Elections were to have been held three months after the death in November of former President Mohamed Taki Abdulkarim, but Abbass said holding them on Grand Comore and Moheli alone would have in fact recognized that Anjouan was no longer part of the nation.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

But the hungry plebs of Cotrone lacked vigour for any effective self-assertion; they merely exhausted themselves with shouting "_Abbass '' o sindaco_!" and dispersed to the hearths which paid for an all but imaginary service.

By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880