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Ebtisam Maraana


Ebtisam Mara'ana, a Palestinian Israeli citizen, was born in Paradise in 1975. She graduated the school of cinema and television at the Jewish-Arab academic center of Givat Haviva. She directed a number of reports for the "Feminine Outlook" and "Arabeska" programs on Israel's Channel One. Her documentary on unrecognized Arab villages Wake up to the Native Land was aired on Israel's Channel Two. Mara'ana was the assistant director in the films made by Simon Bitton, Ram Levi, and Duki Dror. Paradise Lost is her first full-length film. Her filmography includes WAKE UP TO THE NATIVE LAND, the story of the unrecognized Palestinian villages inside Israel (1999).