Maha Haj was born in Nazareth in 1970 and graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She wrote and directed the short film Oranges (2009) and the documentary Within These Walls (2010), and worked on the production design of films by Elia Suleiman, Ziad Douairi and Raphaël Nadjari. Personal Affairs (2016), her critically acclaimed first feature-length fiction film, had its premiere in Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes and won the Haifa Film Festival’s Best Feature Award and the Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier’s Critics’ Award, among other prizes. Maha Haj was born in Nazareth in 1970 and graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She wrote and directed the short film Oranges (2009) and the documentary Within These Walls (2010), and worked on the production design of films by Elia Suleiman, Ziad Douairi and Raphaël Nadjari. Personal Affairs (2016), her critically acclaimed first feature-length fiction film, had its premiere in Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes and won the Haifa Film Festival’s Best Feature Award and the Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier’s Critics’ Award, among other prizes.