Najwa Najjar (Arabic: نجوى نجار) is a film writer and director.
She began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999.
[1] Her debut feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh won 10 awards,[which?]
[7][8] The 1999 documentary film Naim and Wadee’a was based on Najjar's family and includes the oral histories of Na’im Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi, a couple who were forced to leave their Jaffa home in 1948.
[9] Her film, Eyes of a Thief, was the official Palestinian submission to the 87th Academy Awards.