{"id":203965,"date":"2025-12-25T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/203965\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:04:11","slug":"homeland-actor-jenin-jenin-director-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/203965\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Homeland’ Actor, ‘Jenin, Jenin’ Director Was"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMohammad Bakri<\/a>, a Palestinian actor who appeared in a recurring role on seven 2020 episodes of Showtime\u2019s Homeland<\/a> and directed the controversial 2003 documentary Jenin, Jenin, died of heart and lung issues December 24 at a hospital in the regional city of Nahariya in Israel, according to local news site Al-Jarmaq and the Associated Press. He was 72.<\/p>\n

\n\tDescribed by the AP as a \u201cdirector and actor who sought to share the complexities of Palestinian identity and culture through a variety of works in both Arabic and Hebrew,\u201d Bakri is perhaps most widely known for Jenin, Jenin, which chronicled a 2002 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The film depicted the heavy destruction of the city and was banned by Israel.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost recently, Bakri appeared in the 2025 film All That\u2019s Left of You, a drama about a Palestinian family that also starred Bakri\u2019s sons Adam and Saleh Bakri. The film has been shortlisted for a best international feature film Oscar.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in northern Israel, Bakri staged a one-man-show in 1986, called The Pessoptimist that depicted the conflicts of a man who shared both Israeli and Palestinian identities. Also during that decade, Bakri appeared in such films as Beyond the Walls, Death Before Dishonor and Foreign Nights.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite his prolific acting career, Bakri\u2019s documentary Jenin, Jenin was perhaps his highest profile project internationally, in part because of accusations that the film defamed Israeli soldiers. Legal battles plagued Bakri for more than two decades: In 2022, Israel\u2019s Supreme Court upheld an Israeli ban on the documentary and ordered the director to pay what the AP says was \u201ctens of thousands of dollars in damages to an Israeli military officer for defamation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBakri\u2019s other film and TV acting credits include the 2022 film Boy From Heaven, HBO\u2019s The Night Of, and the 2017 film American Assassin starring Michael Keaton. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn his recurring role on Season 8 of Homeland, Bakri played Afghanistan vice president Abdu Qadir G\u2019ulom. <\/p>\n

\n\tOne of Bakri\u2019s final projects was his performance of \u201cOlder Sharif\u201d in Cherien Dabis\u2019 All That\u2019s Left of You, Jordan\u2019s 2025 submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar. Nominations will be announced January 22.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to wife Leila, he is survived by six children including his actor sons Adam, Ziad and Saleh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian actor who appeared in a recurring role on seven 2020 episodes of Showtime\u2019s Homeland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,114500,85,46,114501,114502,84211,5365],"class_list":{"0":"post-203965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-homeland","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-jenin-jenin","13":"tag-mohammad-bakri","14":"tag-novid","15":"tag-obituary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}