Sameh Zoabi

Sameh Zoabi is a Palestinian Israeli film writer and director best known for his 2019 film Tel Aviv on Fire Zoabi grew up in Iksal a village near Nazareth Israel His father is a farmer He studied at Tel Aviv University graduating with a dual degree in film studies and literature and then attended Columbia University on a Fulbright scholarship receiving his MFA in 2005 Zoabi lives in Brooklyn and teaches at New York University