Nida Sinnokrot
Nida Sinnokrot | |
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Born |
1971 The United States |
Nationality | Palestinian-American |
Education | University of Texas - Austin, Bard College |
Occupation | Artist, Filmmaker |
Nida Sinnokrot (1971) is a Palestinian-American artist, focusing on installation art, and filmmaker. Raised in Algeria, Sinnokrot relocated to the United States as an adolescent.
In 2002, he won a Rockefeller Media Fellowship with which he relocated to Palestine to work. Subsequently, he directed an award-winning documentary on Palestinian resistance called Palestine Blues. The film concerns the destruction brought about in the Palestinian village of Jayyous by the IDF in their efforts to raise Israel's West Bank Barrier.
External links
- Nida Sinnokrot: A Palestinian Filmmaker’s Story of the Wall
- Made in Palestine, Nida Sinnokrot
- Nida Sinnokrot, Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Palestine Blues official site
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