Sabrin Burshid (; June 11, 1985 – July 22, 2019) was a

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i actress and broadcaster.

Biography

Burshid was born in

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, Bahrain, to

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parents. She studied media and

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, but left school in 2008 to work at the

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. She made her television hosting debut in the summer of 2009. She presented a reality show for

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2010, winning the "Most Beautiful Arab Broadcaster" award, and was one of the hosts of the Kuwaiti show ''Ali Al-Seif'' on Al-Adalah TV. Her first acting role was in the 2012

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play '' Misbah Zain''; her friend

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helped her to obtain the role. In 2018, she moved to

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for work-related reasons.

Illness and death

In April 2019, Burshid's family revealed that she was sleeping excessively and did not remember her friends’ names. Tests conducted at the

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revealed three

lymphoma Lymphoma is a group of blood and lymph tumors that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). The name typically refers to just the cancerous versions rather than all such tumours. Signs and symptoms may include enlarged lymph node ...

s in the left hemisphere of her brain. This required immediate surgery and her father appealed to the

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for aid in obtaining quick treatment, a plea that gained support from activists and artists across the Gulf. The Royal Court agreed to send her abroad for treatment, and the Health Ministry arranged for her travel to

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. However, her condition did not improve, and she died in Turkey on July 22, 2019.

Works

Television series

Theatre

Broadcasting

References

External links

El Cinema page
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