One of the pillars of Arab drama, Hani Al-Saadi, passed away on Friday in Damascus at the age of 81 after suffering from illness for five years, leaving a clear mark on Syrian drama throughout his long career that spanned more than half a century of creativity and brilliance.
The Syrian Artists Syndicate mourned the late artist in a post published on its Facebook page.
Al-Saadi was a Palestinian-Syrian actor born in Safuriya in the Nazareth district on June 6, 1944. He took refuge with his family in Syria as a four-year-old child during the Nakba in 1948 and lived in the Sarouja neighborhood of Damascus.
He has been a member of the Artists Syndicate since 1973. He participated in many television, theatrical and cinematic works as a director, actor and writer, in addition to many radio works.
Al-Saadi stopped acting in 2002, after which he devoted himself to writing, writing many series that combined drama and fantasy, and perhaps the most famous of them are the works classified as “historical fantasy,” which he established as a popular genre in Arab television drama since the late eighties in the series “Desert Wrath” and “The Volcano.”
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