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Francois Abu Salem, founder and director of El-Hakawati Theater, takes a pensive puff of his Marlboro, and leans back in his chair. He is having a bad day. The logistics of staging his new play , "Jericho, Year Zero," at an upcoming European Festival, are causing a few wrinkles to line his sharply angled yet handsome face Oriental and Occidental , his features reflect the troubled but dynamic melange of European and Palestinian elements found in his plays.
Abu-Salem-,the product of a cross-cultural marriage between a French mother and a Palestinian father - has always reflected the theme of East...