Maha Haj

Biography

Maha Haj (Arabic: مها حاج; born in 1970; Nazareth) is a Palestinian filmmaker.

Haj was born in Nazareth. She was educated in the Baptist Christian school in Nazareth, though both her parents were communist activists. Under her father's influence she began studying pharmacy science, but after year switched to literature, and completed her BA in English and Arabic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her MA in language and literature at Haifa University. She began working as a teacher, but was more interested in her art and writing, which she practiced in her free time.

She began her cinematic career working as an set designer, script doctor, and art director on such films a...