Look .. Hatem Ali made his first appearance in 32 years

From the first moments of news of Syrian director, actor and writer Hatem Ali’s death in Cairo after a heart attack at the age of 58 on Tuesday, social media has turned into a platform for expressing his condolences for the departure of the artist who shocked the Arab artistic community with his departure, in addition to the mass community who began to exchange their condolences. The district which expresses the attachment of Arab television viewers to the work of the deceased.

Most of the condolences that were offered upon his departure were on being the director of dramatic masterpieces, and then on the inherent characteristic of the man, which focused on his “high humanity and morality” , according to what a wide range of top Arab artists reported on their social media accounts.

Works engraved in memory

While commentators and activists circulated a number of the names of the works of fire, after the news of his departure, which he left in the art of directing, mainly the series “Rabih Qurtuba”, “Salah al -Din al-Ayyubi “,” Omar “,” Saqr Quraish “,” Kings of Taifas “and” Forgiveness And “King Farouk” and others, others shared his acting debut, which he appeared for the first time on television in 1988.

The year 1988 represented the first breakthrough of Hatem Ali, born in the town of “Fayq” in the Syrian Golan occupied by Israel since 1967, that is to say five years after his birth, after which he was moved with his family in his childhood, to reside in the suburbs of Damascus, then to be educated there, in the theater. And then to work in directing, in which he emerged to the point where he has been described as the most prominent Syrian filmmaker, despite his young age.

First appearance, first episode and first character

Ali appeared in a television series, for the first time, in 1988, the series “Circle of Fire” of the Syrian director Haitham Hakki. Although “The Circle of Fire” was the first series, in the end, at the same time, he was the first character to appear in the first episode of the work.

It should be noted that the first episode of the series “Circle of Fire”, in which he made his first appearance, began with the appearance of Hatem Ali, on a bicycle, then stopping at a vendor to buy a foul dish, played by the late artist Muhammad Al-Akkad, famous for the character “Abu Jassim”. “.

Hatem Ali

It is noteworthy that Hatem Ali, in a less similar consensus, combined the elitist and the masses in his works, and was an admiration for intellectuals, critics and spectators, at the same time, together. This is the reason why a wide range of Arab intellectuals and academics mourned him on their social media accounts, in addition to the mourners of Arab viewers, on their different social and cultural strata.

It is noteworthy that Ali first came from the world of writing, as he is a professional in the art of short stories, in his early days, and from there he moved on to writing theatrical, then scriptwriting for a television or film script.