Education
He studied at Beit Zvi and has acted in many plays by William Shakespeare at the Haifa Theatre and Camera Theatre.
He studied at Beit Zvi and has acted in many plays by William Shakespeare at the Haifa Theatre and Camera Theatre.
He worked at the The Arab-Hebrew Theater together with fellow Israeli-Arab actor Yousef Sweid. He started to become famous as the main protagonist of the Israeli sitcom Arab Labor, created by Israeli-Arab journalist Sayed Kashua. In 2015, Issa refused to perform in a settlement in the Jordan Valley, causing the Minister of Culture Miri Regev to threathen to shut down the Elmina Theater.