Maysaloun Hamoud

• Native Name — ميسالون حمود • Born — 1982 • Birthplace — Budapest, Hungary • Citizenship — Israeli • Occupation — Film director • Years Active — 2010– • Education — Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Maysaloun Hamoud was born in Budapest in 1982 to Israeli parents of Palestinian heritage. She grew up in Budapest and then Beersheba, Israel. She read Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2004, introduced to cinema by an animator friend, she joined the Minshar School of Art in Tel-Aviv to study film. Hamoud is an Israeli citizen.

Hamoud became a teacher after her graduation. In 2010, Hamoud directed Sense of Morning, a short film inspired by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's Memory of Forgetfulness (1987). In the film, the poet strives to continue his daily routine of coffee and cigarettes on the last day of the siege of Beirut. At the Minshar School of Art, one of Hamoud's teachers was Shlomi Elkabetz, an Israeli film director. Hamoud developed her idea for the feature film Bar Bahar under his guidance and support. She has said that, according to him, her film is a sort of extension of Elkabetz's trilogy To Take a Wife (2004), Shiva (2007) and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014).

• (2010) Sense of Morning (short film) • (2016) In Between (feature film) • (2021) Nafas (short film)

The following is established of the heading itself.

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. The record continues: maysaloun Hamoud is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded with the occupation screenwriter. It is also recorded that maysaloun Hamoud is recorded with the occupation director. Institutional cataloguing adds that maysaloun Hamoud is recorded as a citizen of Hungary. Recorded with the gender female. The register further records that maysaloun Hamoud was born on 1 January 1982.