Sayed Kashua Honored in SF
From the JTA:
San Francisco’s Israeli Consul General Akiva Tor called it “the best television we’ve produced in the last decade” and “the ultimate destruction of PC.”
He’s talking about “Arab Labor,” the wildly popular and wickedly funny Israeli sit-com about an Arab-Israeli family trying to make their way in the Jewish state.
The show’s creator, Israeli Arab novelist, screenwriter and Ha’aretz columnist Sayed Kashua, received the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival’s Freedom of Expression award July 28 in San Francisco, just prior to a screening of three episodes of Season 2 of his show. Two of those episodes have not yet aired in Israel, giving a few hundred lucky San Franciscans first crack at what is sure to raise eyebrows and generate a lot of ink back home.
Sayed Kashua is very funny writer whose Hebrew is a pleasure to read. See his most recent column here in Hebrew and here in English. Below is a clip from his show “Arab Labor,” which is available on DVD-Arab Labor: The Complete First Season
More video clips can be seen here. Among his books that have been translated into English are Dancing Arabs
