‘It hurts’: Trump travel ban blocks Oscar nominee from attending award ceremony

Oscar-nominated actor Motaz Malhees is barred from attending this Sunday’s Academy Awards due to President Donald Trump’s travel ban for certain foreign nationals, with the actor taking to social media Friday to express his disappointment.

Malhees played a prominent role in the 2025 film “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” a dramatization of the real-life killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in 2024 when Israeli troops fired hundreds of rounds into a vehicle carrying her and her family.