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Ghassan Abbas (Hebrew: גסאן עבאס) is a Palestinian theater, film and television actor.
Biography
Ghassan was born in 1957 in Umm al-Fahm. He learned the subject of acting at Tel Aviv University. He participated in many plays, including Haifa Theater, Habima Theater, El Kamry Theater, Folk Theater, Beit Lisin Theater and Neve Tzedek Theater Center, in addition to writing and directing plays “Steps” and “Joys”. In 1988, he played at the AKO Festival in a solo play "God Save Me From My Country" written by Daniel Horowitz about the exiled Iraqi poet Mafar al-Nawwar.
In 1981, the Film Censorship Council rejected the play "Mashhad", which he co-wrote with Awadeh Ratib, and which dealt with the issue of land confiscation in the Arab sector. Ghassan participated in the TV series "The Great Restaurant" (in the role of waiter Abdo), in the series "Sour from Jaffa" and in several films. Since 2001, he has been the executive director of the Diwan Al-Lajoun Theater in Wadi Ara.
In 1991, he participated in the movie "Final Cup" alongside Moshe Evji and Mohamed Bakri. In 2010 he participated in the comic “Half a Bronze Tone” which aired on HOT VOD alongside Shlomo Bar Abba, Michael Hanegbi and Shmil Ben Ari.
Since 2007, Ghassan appears in some performances of Habima Theater. In 2012, he played the role of Doctor Izz El-Din Abuelaish in the show, "I Will Not Hate", who wrote according to Dr. Abuelaish's book about his life, and the tragedy that occurred when three of his daughters were killed during Operation Cast Lead, his house was shot by IDF tank shells. in Jabalia.
In 2014, Ghassan refused to submit to the mayor of Ashkelon, Itamar Shimoni, after the play “The Good Soldier Schweik,” after Shimoni ordered the work of Palestinian Arabs to be stopped from his city.
In 2018, he participated in the fourth season of the eighties series, in which he played Dr. Edward Mansour, an Arab dentist from Halisa. In the same year, he began playing in the Beit Lissin theater in the play "Oslo".
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