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Suleiman was born and raised in Nazareth and moved at 17 to New York City (where, he says, "I practiced being an illegal immigrant"). In 1989 he went home and picked up his brother's old vhs camera. "I started by filming sheep," he says. "Somehow sheep manage to pose very well." Now he lives in France, where he shot his film's more incendiary scenes. In Palestine, you can't get a movie permit to blow up an Israeli tank...
...films, from Edison's The Passion Play at Oberammergau in 1898 to a quartet of Stan Brakhage experimental shorts in 2001. The story has been filmed by Cecil B. DeMille, Nicholas Ray, George Stevens. The Messiah has been portrayed with stolid reverence (in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth) and Surrealist blasphemy (Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or). Often he sings: in Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, in a born-again Bollywood musical and in the Canadian kung-fu horror comedy Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter...
First-years Cameron A. Fine, 18, of Phoenix, Ariz., Christopher W. Gary, 18, of Nazareth, Pa., Brett D. Smith, of Papillion, Neb., sophomore Zachery A. Bradley, 19, of Alexander, Ark. and senior Eric W. Wenzel, 21, of Garden City N.Y., were injured in the crash...
...friend,' not 'Here is the Israeli person.'" Ballin says she feels the same way, while admitting that she finds it hard to hear others criticizing her country, "even though I do this myself." Saleem Abboud, 25, is a Palestinian Israeli who was discovered by Edward Said playing piano in Nazareth. Now based in Berlin, he has attended all four West-Eastern Divan gatherings, the first held in the German city of Weimar in 1999. "The way we talk to each other is as important as concrete matters like withdrawal or dividing Jerusalem," he says. "The orchestra is an attempt...
...where Jesus was born is thought to have helped start the Crimean War. Seized and besieged by a host of armies over the centuries, the church has even inspired bickering among scholars, who argue about whether Jesus was born here at all. Many believe he was actually born in Nazareth, not in Bethlehem, and certainly not in some little manger in the cool grotto over which the Holy Roman Emperors built a shrine to their deepest hopes...