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 city of Haifa, Sweid had yet to realise how, to others, he was a complex and often contradictory set of labels, identities and expectations as a Palestinian-Israeli citizen. He has acquired new labels since: two Israeli-Jewish ex-wives and two heavily-hyphenated children who live with him in Berlin.The 49-year-old is a well-known Israeli film, stage and television actor with roles in Game of Thrones, Unorthodox and the 2006 movie...
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