Hatem Ali .. the secret of the shock left by the news of his sudden death

The news of the death of the great Syrian director, Hatem Ali, came like love at first sight to the artistic community across the Arab world, and to Arab viewers who for years have been attached to his work which covered the Arab region. .

And Ali’s sudden death in Egypt was announced today, Tuesday, with a heart attack, and the latest news of his death was widespread shock, according to posts still coming out on social media, one of the greatest Arab artists, who expressed that his departure was a tragedy for Arab art and culture.

Ali was born in 1962 and began his life as a writer passionate about the techniques of the short story on which he has worked since the eighties of the last century, during which time he graduated from the Institute Superior of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, in 1986, and at the same period in which he began his dramatic activity, as an actor who attracted the attention of Critics.

Unforgettable works

The late director was known for dozens of series in which he participated, as an actor, and then went on to directing in which he left “unforgettable” works described by artists, critics and viewers as masterpieces. They called him “director of masterpieces” and won the most important artistic awards.

On the other hand, the fame and dissemination of the director of masterpieces did not guarantee him to remain a member of the Artists’ Union from which he was separated, for various reasons, in 2015, he and dozens of Syrian artists. , and at the heart of the Syrian crisis and its frenzied war, whose victims were artists dismissed from their union, and other arrested. They are still in the regime’s prisons, like Cordello Zaki, and others.

Hatem Ali

Ali, in his artistic personality, embodied a mixture of sufferings, aspirations and tragedies, since he originally descended from the Syrian Golan, occupied by “Israel” since 1967, and lived, displaced, in the suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus, in difficult living conditions.

Ali, he came to art originally, from the angle of literature, he was a writer in the first place, and in the eighties of the last century he often watched in the episodes of the laboratory of news that he was writing, with a visual awareness, he then led him to the art of screenplay in which he also excelled, For what it demands of notation, in the language of the picture.

News of his death sweeps through all websites, newspapers and media websites. Something hidden, in the shock that hit the Arab artistic community, after his departure at this young age, appears in the mixture of his personality: a few words, constant work, a masterful director born of the loss of his hometown, lived on the move, was separated by the Syndicate of Artists from the Syrian regime, but at the time Himself it portrayed the story of the kings of Andalusia and of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi. Something that can hide the misery of the present.

A feature that caused a violent feeling of the tragedy of his departure

Ali, for the history of the Arabs, has triumphed in his contemporary works, like the Palestinian alienation, and the first, like the entirety of his historical works. Condolences to all, his family, his fans, his fans and the Syrian artists.

Something mysterious is still happening, in this high wave sweeping the media, grief for man. Is it simply because he is a director of masterpieces? From what the great Arab artists write, man has a latent trait that everyone who met him knows, from his childhood until today. Hatem Ali is above all a person of a high level of politeness and humanity: “A great director, Hatem Ali, I know that you are brilliant, Morally and humanly in all its measure”, this is how the great Lebanese singer, Asi Helani, cried.

The actor who mocks the Arab nation, from the ocean to the Gulf, with his art and his talent, the Saudi actor Nasser Al-Qasabi, lamented the news of his departure, says: “I was so shocked this morning, with the news of the death of director Hatem Ali. ” Al-Qasabi continues under the authority of Ali: “He always repeated, and with an audible voice, Lord, forgive me.” The late director was a deep humanist.

Lebanese artist Nadine Njeim shed light on part of the secret of the deceased that had bloodied the hearts of those who had known him about his departure, and she mourned it, with great pain, on his “good heart” and said to him: “We love you”.