Kamel El Basha or Kamel el-Basha (Arabic: كامل الباشا‎) (born March 14, 1962 in East Jerusalem), is a Palestinian theater actor and director and film actor who won the 2017 Volpi Cup for Best Actor (masculine) during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult (also known in Arabic: قضية رقم ٢٣‎, romanized: Qadiyya raqm 23, lit. 'Case No. 23') by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri.[1][2] It was El Basha's first major role on screen, although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions, actually also directing some of them, in addition to a handful of films in small roles.