Kamel El Basha

Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor of screen and stage theater director playwriter and producer He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s He gained critical acclaim in 2017 when he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor male during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri It was El Bashas first major role on screen although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions actually also directing some of them He is the former artistic director of the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011 and the artistic director of Quds Art since 2012