Yousef Sweid (GER/ISR)

is an actor and author. He is a Palestinian Israeli, was born in Haifa, and lives in Berlin. In Tel Aviv, he worked with Arab and Jewish communities and founded the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa. As an actor, he was a member of the Israeli National Theater and the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, and soon began working in film and television.
He is the (co-)author of numerous award-winning plays that deal with intercultural understanding and have been performed worldwide. He has worked at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Schaubühne Berlin, and the Burgtheater in Vienna, and continues to appear in films and series such as UNORTHODOX, TOTENFRAU, WALK ON WATER, BAGDAD CENTRAL, GAME OF THRONES, and HOMELAND.