Background
Makram J. Khoury was born in 1945, into a Palestinian Christian family, in the al-Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem to his father, who was a judge, and his mother, a teacher.
Makram J. Khoury was born in 1945, into a Palestinian Christian family, in the al-Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem to his father, who was a judge, and his mother, a teacher.
Educated there and in the nearby village of Kufr Yasif, Khoury finished high school in 1963. Khoury trained in Israel and from 1970 to 1973 he studied for three years at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, England.
Makram is active in films, on the stage, and on television The Khoury family fled to Lebanon during 1948 Arab-Israeli War. A year later, they returned to what had become the new State of Israel.
The family took up residence in the port city of Acre, near Haifa.
He then entered the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but later dropped out and pursued a career as an actor. Makram has recently returned to Haifa following a year-long tour playing Tierno Bokar in Peter Brook"s 11 and 12.
He later became involved with the Cameri in Tel Aviv and the Haifa Municipal, continuing as a member of the latter for twenty years.
