A Palestinian writer makes a show about making a show and forgets to separate fiction from existential dread.
Season 1 • Episode 10
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Mockumentary based on the life of Israeli-Arab writer and journalist, Sayed Kashua, creator of the series 'Arab Labor'. Kataeb, Palestinian writer and journalist living in Israel, loses interest in writing his successful series and instead wants to write a series on a 40 year old going throw a mid-life crisis he is experiencing. As a Palestinian and Israeli he confronts with questions about identity, national definitions, as well as his relationships with his family, and the society and country he lives in.
Writing
Kashua weaponizes his own life; fiction and reality become indistinguishable.
Acting
Yousef Sweid plays exhaustion like a second language.
Creator
Sayed Kashua
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kashua actually left Israel for the US in 2014, making this series a fictionalized farewell letter to the life he abandoned.
The mockumentary format mirrors how Palestinian citizens of Israel are constantly asked to perform their identity for others' consumption.
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