Ehab Tarabieh was born in 1982 in Majdal Shams, a small village in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Growing up under Israeli military occupation, Tarabieh was politically active at very young age. He studied classical violin at the Conservatory for Classical Music in Damascus before relocating to the Czech Republic to study film. After graduating, he made several award-winning short films that documented life under occupation in Palestine. His short film The Forgotten won the Best Short Film Award at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival in 2012. Award winning short documentary Smile, and the World Will Smile Back (2014) was screened in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and 2015 ZagrebDox. Of Land and Bread (2019) is his feature debut.
In 2007, the human rights organization B'Tselem launched a project to provide video cameras and train Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their life under Israeli occupation. Composed of numerous short films, _Of Land and Bread_ is a film of painful eloquence.
In 2007, the human rights organization B'Tselem launched a project to provide video cameras and train Palestinian volunteers in the West Bank to document their life under Israeli occupation. Composed of numerous short films, _Of Land and Bread_ is a film of painful eloquence.