Tawfik Abu Wael

Tawfik Abu Wael (born 1976, Um El-Fahem, Israel) is a writer and director of television series and feature films.

Qualifications and early career

Abu Wael graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1996 having studied film directing. From 1996 to 1999, he worked in the film archive of Tel Aviv University and taught drama at the Hassan Arafe School in Jaffa. From 1997, he worked as freelance production manager and director.

Television and film career

Abu Wael's early career was as a director of shorts, including Bread, Hashish and the Moon (1997), I leave, You Stay (1998), Characters (1998), Intellectual Garbage (1999), Diary of a Male Whore (1999), The Fourteenth (2002), Love Letter to Cinema (2014) Freedom Train (2017). He also directed the 2001 documentary Waiting for Sallah El-Din.

He has also directed full-length features including Thirst (2004) and Last Days in Jerusalem (2011)

In 2017, it was announced that Abu Wael is developing a Tel Aviv-based thriller. Abu Wael co-created of HBO's Our Boys, alongside Hagai Levi and Joseph Cedar, writing and directing the Palestinian parts of this 10-part series to ensure balance.

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