Yousef “Joe” Sweid might just be Israel’s unlikeliest pinup. The breakout star of 2006, thanks to his perf in Eytan Fox’s “The Bubble,” playing in Berlin’s Panorama, and a recurring role in hugely ...

The Bubble (Unrated) Strand Releasing (117 min.) Directed by Eytan Fox. Stars Ohad Knoller, Yousef "Joe" Sweid. In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles. Opens Friday at theaters in New York. THREE ...

Eytan Fox’s The Bubble, from a screenplay by Gal Uchovsky & Mr. Fox, mixes a gay romance with contemporary Israeli-Palestinian tensions in Tel Aviv and the occupied territories, and a literally ...

Yousef Sweid is no stranger to slurs. When a kindergarten playmate called him a “stinky Arab”, five-year-old Yousef was as surprised by the noun as the adjective. Growing up in the northern Israeli ...

“I’m just here to talk about my divorce,” says Yousef Sweid right after a preamble about the complicated reception of political productions. He and Isabella Sedlak write a poignant reflection on how ...