Saleh Bakri

Saleh Bakri is a Palestinian theater and film actor from Palestine. He began his career in the theater. Bakri is a graduate of the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts in Tel Aviv. Saleh is the son of actor and film director Mohammad Bakri, brother of actors Ziad and Adam Bakri.

Theater and film career

Bakri performed in Hamlet and Death and the Maiden directed by Juliano Mer-Khamis.

In 2007, he appeared in his first two films: The Band's Visit and Salt of this Sea by Annemarie Jacir, which premiered at Cannes in 2008. "Salt of this Sea" was Saleh Bakri's debut performance in an Arab film and went on to be Palestine's official submission for the Academy Awards. "The Band’s Visit" also won numerous prizes and awards. The following year he portrayed Elia Suleiman's father Fouad in The Time That Remains.

In 2011, he appeared in Radu Mihaileanu's movie The Source alongside Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Biyouna, Sabrina Ouazani and Hiam Abbass.

He was the protagonist of Sharif Waked's work To be continued in 2009 portraying a Palestinian martyr who reads what was supposed to be the text that testifies to his approaching obliteration but emerges instead as tales from A Thousand and One Nights. Other projects include Laila's Birthday by Rachid Masharawi, playing a small role next to his father, Annemarie Jacir' second movie When I Saw You and a short movie titled Fireworks directed by Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese. He played the eponymous protagonist in the Italian thriller Salvo (film), which won the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015 Bakri appeared at the Royal Court Theatre in the play 'Fireworks' by Palestinian playwright Dalia Taha, about two families living under siege in Gaza

Saleh

Saleh (/ˈsɑːlə/) or Salih (/ˈsɑːli/; Arabic: صالح Ṣāliḥ, meaning "Pious") was a prophet of ancient Arabia mentioned in the Qur'an, who prophesied to the tribe of Thamud. He is mentioned nine times throughout the Qur'an and his people are frequently referenced as a wicked community who, because of their sins, were ultimately destroyed. Saleh is sometimes equated with Salah, a figure from the Hebrew Bible, although the two have little in common save for their names. The preaching and prophecy of Saleh is linked to the famous Islamic story of the She-Camel, which was the gift given by God to the people of Thamud when they desired a miracle to confirm the truth of the message Saleh was preaching.

Historical context

Thamud people are believed to have been the successors to the ancient tribe of ʿĀd. Their ancestral descendant may have been Eber, the great-grandson of Noah and their location is likely to have been in the Northwest corner of Arabia, between Madinah and Syria. In later Islamic history, when Muhammad led his expedition to Tabuk against the Romans, on a reported Roman invasion from Syria, the prophet and his companions walked past the land of Thamud. With the advance of material civilization, the people of Thamud became materialistic and arrogant as well as godless. Thus, God sent the prophet and seer Saleh, to warn them about the impending doom they would face if they did not mend their sinful ways.

Saleh (name)

Saleh, Salih, Sahlay or Çalih and other variants (Arabic: صالح, [sˤɑːleħ] or [sˤɑːlɪħ]) is a male given name of Arabic origin.

Given name

  • Saleh, Arabian prophet
  • Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, Saudi Arabian businessman
  • Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad (born 1986), Kuwaiti long jumper
  • Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer
  • Salih Güney, Turkish film actor
  • Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity, Iraqi musician
  • Saleh al-Mutlaq, Iraqi politician
  • Salih Neftçi, Turkish financial economist
  • Salih Omurtak, Turkish general
  • Salih Pasha (disambiguation), various Ottoman people
  • Salih Sadir, Iraqi footballer
  • Salih Uçan, Turkish footballer
  • Surname

  • Abdul Rahman Saleh, Indonesian aviator and physician
  • Ali Abdullah Saleh, former President of Yemen
  • Akmal Saleayer
  • Hashim Saleh, Omani footballer
  • Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi, prisoner who died in United States military detention
  • Raden Saleh, Indonesian painter
  • Tayeb Salih, Sudanese author
  • See also

  • Salah (name)
  • Salehi
  • Mada'in Saleh, an archaeological site in Saudi Arabia
  • Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi

    Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi (February 1, 1978 - June 1, 2009) was a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Al Hanashi's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 78. The Department of Defense reports that Al Hanashi was born on February 1, 1978, in Al Habrub, Yemen.

    On June 2, 2009, the Department of Defense reported that a 31-year-old Yemeni captive named "Muhammed Ahmad Abdallah Salih" committed suicide late on June 1, 2009. Camp officials did not allow journalists who were at the camp for Omar Khadr's Guantanamo military commission to report news of his death until they left Guantanamo.

    June 2009 death

    Ahmed was reported to have been found "unresponsive" in his cell late on the night of June 1, 2009. He is reported to have been held in Camp 5, and to have been held in the Guantanamo psychiatric ward. Like all the other men camp authorities claimed were suicides he was on a long term hunger strike, and, consequently, where he was being strapped twice a day into a restraint chair, for force-feeding. The Associated Press reports that his weight had, at one time, dropped to just 86 pounds.

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