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series "Cultural Portraits" for Al Jazeera, featuring profiles of prominent Arabs who had made a significant world contribution in the arts, science or politics.
Sansour studied at the Sorbonne, Moscow State University and the University of Warwick. Her most recent work is the film and awareness campaign Open Bethlehem. The film has screened in festivals in the U.K., and toured Canada in September 2016, screening in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, and Edmonton. OPEN BETHLEHEM is an international campaign that works to promote global engagement with Bethlehem
Leila Sansour
Leila Sansour (, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Open Bethlehem, a non-governmental foundation established to promote and protect the life and heritage of the city of Bethlehem. Sansour developed the Bethlehem Passport in partnership with the city council and governor of Bethlehem. Pope Benedict XVI became the first recipient of the Bethlehem passport when he accepted the "citizenship of Bethlehem" from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in December 2005.
Sansour is from an old Palestinian Roman Catholic family. She was born in Moscow,