Sobhi al-Zobaidi, independent Palestinian filmmaker, artist and scholar, has made a number of award winning documentaries, short fiction, art videos and multi-media installations, and since 1998, he has been an active member of the new and independent film movement in the occupied Palestine. Al-Zobaidi studied cinema at New York University and has taught film and media at Birzeit Universiy and Al-Quds University as well as published reviews in both English and Arabic of Palestinian cinema, art and politics.