Within the first few minutes of “The Teacher,” Yacoub winds up dead at the hands of an Israeli settler, leaving his younger teenage brother Adam (Muhammad Abed Elrahman) behind. Yacoub’s ...

By Ben Kenigsberg The protagonist of “The Teacher” is at the nexus of several ... Yacoub’s brother, Adam (Muhammad Abed Elrahman), is another of Basem’s pupils — the brains to Yacoub ...