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Higher Institute Of Dramatic Arts (Damascus) Alumni
The Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (HIDA, ) was founded in Damascus, Syria, in 1977 by academics such as the playwright Saadallah Wannous, theatre critic Ghassan al-Maleh and professor of theatre at Damascus University, Hannan Kassab Hassan. The institute initiated a new phase in the development of theatre in Syria through the preparation of a new generation of playwrights, theatre directors and actors in aspects of modern dramatic arts on an academic basis, including the actor Fares Al-Helou and playwrights Liwaa Yazji and Mohammad Al Attar. The institute initially included five departments: Acting, Literary Criticism, Dramatic Arts, Scenography, and Theatre Techniques, with a department for Dance added later. A notable artist of the younger generation is Noura Mourad, an expert in dance and movement in theatre, who became a teacher at the institute for modern dance and performance after her graduation. Mourad is also director of ''Leish Troupe,'' an ensemble for movem ...
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Damascus
Damascus ( , ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. Known colloquially in Syria as () and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" ( ), Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. Situated in southwestern Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area. Nestled among the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau above sea level, Damascus experiences an arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada, Barada River flows through Damascus. Damascus is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. Afte ...
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Dance
Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements or by its History of dance, historical period or List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin, place of origin. Dance is typically performed with Music, musical accompaniment, and sometimes with the dancer simultaneously using a musical instrument themselves. Two common types of group dance are Concert dance, theatrical and Participation dance, participatory dance. Both types of dance may have special functions, whether social, ceremonial, Competitive dance, competitive, Erotic dance, erotic, War dance, martial, Sacred dance, sacred or Liturgical dance, liturgical. Dance is not solely restricted to performance, as dance is used as a form of exercise and occasionally training for other sports and activities. Dance perf ...
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Sulafa Memar
Sulafa Refaat Memar () is a Syrian actress. She began her career in 1994 and studied at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus. She performs in TV and cinema and won Best Arab actress award in Oran Arab Film Festival for her role in ‘ Under the ceiling’. Personal life Sulafa Memar was born in Damascus but she is originally from Aqarib village in Hama Governorate. In 2002 she married a Syrian actor and director named Saif Aldin Alsubaei and later she gave birth to her daughter ''Dahab'' in 2006. She got divorced in 2012. Works Series Cinema References External links Sulafa Mimar at IMDb IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Memar Sulafa 1976 births Living people 20th-century Syrian actresses 21st-century Syrian actresses Sy ...
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Samer Al-Masry
Samer al-Masry, also spelled Samer al-Masri, (; born 3 August 1969) is a Syrian actor. He is best known for his lead role in the Syrian drama Bab al-Hara.Interview by Hayyan Nayouf, translated by Sonia Faridalarabiya.net 10 October 2007 Following the victory of the Syrian revolution, al-Masry appeared in a self-recorded video where he celebrated the victory with tears, emotionally describing how he was coming to see his mom who he had not seen for 14 years due to the exile imposed by the Assad regime after he received numerous threats for voicing opposition to the now ousted regime.On January 26, 2025, Al-Masry arrived in Damascus airport where he was welcomed by supporters and went and visited his mom for the first time in 14 years. Career Al-Masry has performed in theater and film but is best known for his work in television and his lead role in ''Bab al-Hara ''Bab Al-Hara'' (; "The Neighbourhood's Gate") is one of the most popular television series in the Arab world, repo ...
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Kosai Khauli
Kosai Khauli (; born 1 April 1976 in Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian actor. He portrayed the king of Egypt Ismai’il Pasha in the 2014 historic TV drama ''Saraya Abdeen'' that aired on MBC in 2014. Life He mentioned in an interview on MBC that there is a common misinformation about his birthplace, and that he was born and raised in Damascus and just spending his summers in Tartus. Kosai was born in Syria to a Maronite Christian family. He studied Law for two years but later decided to pursue acting studies at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts from which he graduated in 1999. His debut role was a leading role in the television film (Difficult Memory) in 1998. In 2018, he became a father to his first son Fares from his Tunisian partner, Madiha Elhemdani. Filmography Cinema * ''Seven Minutes to Midnight'' * ''Slap'' * ''Dreamy Vision'' * ''Lovers'' * ''Forgiving'' * ''Mariam Baker'' * ''New Year'' * ''Sweat Lies'' * ''Scenarios'' * '' Aserb: The Squadron'' (2024) Televi ...
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Dima Kandalaft
Dima Kandalaft (; born 3 January 1979 in Damascus) is a Syrian actress and singer. Biography Kandalaft was born in Damascus to a doctor Syrian father and a Lebanese mother from Marjayoun. She graduated with a degree of economics from Damascus University Damascus University () is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus, with campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 as the Syrian University () through the merger of the Faculty of Medicine of Dama .... She pursued an acting career and studied at the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts. One of her most prominent roles was a role in Bab al-Hara. On 30 May 2015, Kandalaft married Humam Al Jazaeri, a former Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kandalaft, Dima 1979 births Living people Syrian Christians Syrian television actresses 21st-century Syrian women singers Entertainers from Damascus Damascus University alumni Higher Institute of Dramat ...
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Taim Hasan
Taim Hasan () (born February 17, 1976) is a prominent Syrian actor, known for his distinct dramatic roles in Syria and the Arab world. Hasan achieved fame in Syria through a number of highly acclaimed and extremely successful Syrian series most notably Saladin, Taifas and Nizar Qabbani. Taking on the title role in the Egyptian series King Farouk, Hassan's latest role has established him as one of the leading stars in the Arab world. He appeared perennially with Hatem Ali, one of Syria's leading directors, in a majority of his series such as The Philanderer Salem (2000), Saladin (2001), Taifas (2005) and King Farouk (2007), a role that earned him a best actor's award by Egyptian audiences and critics and earned him vast recognition and success and established him as one of the leading actors of his generation. He has also starred in '' The Waiting'' (2006). He is best known for his role as Abboud, a man who does not have a family, and he loved and cared for by the people of his n ...
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Sabah Jazairi
Sabah Jazairi () is a veteran Syrian actress who has appeared in numerous drama and television series, comedy shorts, and theatrical plays, including "Al Ababid", "Aa'id ila Haifa" (Returning to Haifa) and Bab Al-Hara (The Alley's Gate). Nicknamed "The Cinderella of the Syrian Screen", Jazairi's long career has spanned over five decades and she has performed in over 80 television series. Throughout her long and illustrious career she has been the recipient of many awards. Early life Born to a Damascene family on January 23, 1955, Jazairi's family was no stranger to the entertainment industry in that her own cousin Nibal Al Jazairi was also an actress and her older sister Samia became a respected famous comedian. Career Jazairi began her career at the age of 18 in 1973 when she joined the cast of ''Salt and Sugar'', a comedy series, with the likes of celebrated Syrian comedians, Duraid Lahham, Nihad Qalai and Naji Jaber. The following year she starred in the series Primo, which ...
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Market (economics)
In economics, a market is a composition of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations or infrastructures whereby parties engage in Exchange (economics), exchange. While parties may exchange goods and services by barter, most markets rely on sellers offering their goods or services (including labour power) to buyers in exchange for money. It can be said that a market is the process by which the value of goods and services are established. Markets facilitate trade and enable the distribution and allocation of resources in a society. Markets allow any tradeable item to be evaluated and priced. A market emergence, emerges more or less spontaneous order, spontaneously or may be constructed deliberately by human interaction in order to enable the exchange of rights (cf. ownership) of services and goods. Markets generally supplant Gift economy, gift economies and are often held in place through rules and customs, such as a booth fee, competitive pricing, and source of goods for ...
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Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and Human self-reflection, reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or as a mediator, the intellectual participates in politics, either to defend a concrete proposition or to denounce an injustice, usually by either rejecting, producing or extending an ideology, and by defending a system of value theory, values. Etymological background "Man of letters" The term "man of letters" derives from the French term ''Belles-lettres, belletrist'' or ''homme de lettres'' but is not synonymous with "an academic". A "man of letters" was a literate man, able to read and write, and thus highly valued in the upper strata of society in a time when literacy was rare. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the term ''Belletrist(s)'' came to be applied to the ''literati'': the French particip ...
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ...
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Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the coastline. Lebanon has a population of more than five million and an area of . Beirut is the country's capital and largest city. Human habitation in Lebanon dates to 5000 BC. From 3200 to 539 BC, it was part of Phoenicia, a maritime civilization that spanned the Mediterranean Basin. In 64 BC, the region became part of the Roman Empire and the subsequent Byzantine Empire. After the seventh century, it Muslim conquest of the Levant, came under the rule of different Islamic caliphates, including the Rashidun Caliphate, Rashidun, Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid. The 11th century saw the establishment of Christian Crusader states, which fell ...
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