Claim: Clara Khoury, winner of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television prize for best actress, worked in a variety of roles on stage and television, and gained international recognition for her role in The Syrian Bride.
Evidence: Khoury has worked in a variety of roles on stage including the lead in Antigone by Jean Anouih, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Salome by Oscar Wilde, in Arabic as well as in Hebrew and English. Her television work includes the series Parashat Hashavua, written by Ari Folman, and Arab Labor written by Sayed Kashua. In 2005 she gained international recognition for her role in The Syrian Bride, portraying a young Druze woman who risks losing her family by entering an arranged marriage with a Syrian national. Khoury won the Israeli Academy of Film and Television prize for best actress as Bushra in the television sitcom Arab Labor.