Liza Foreman Before director Rashid Masharawi, whose latest film “Diary of Rue Gabrielle” makes its world premiere at the Cairo Film Festival this week, started making films, there wasn’t much of a film industry in Palestine, beyond propaganda films by the PLO, he says.“I was the first,” he says. “In the early days, festivals that were cautious about Middle East politics, didn’t know which country to assign me to.