Duraid Laham during his honorary symposium at the Alexandria Film Festival: Egypt is the leader in the Arab world

A symposium in honor of the great Syrian artist Duraid Laham was held today, Wednesday, as part of the activities of the “Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries” in its thirty-seventh session, and was moderated by Prince Abaza, president of the festival, and in the presence of Tunisian director Rachid Ferchio, director Omar Abdel Aziz and director Basil Al-Khatib.

At the start of the symposium, a short film on Duraid Lahham was screened, and it included clips honoring Duraid Lahham at the previous Alexandria Festival, in addition to several scenes from the film Damascus Aleppo, which had previously screened in the part of the activities of the Feast of Alexandria.

Duraid Lahham began his speech by thanking all participants and Prince Abaza for honoring him, and said: “I am the Egypt of my dreams, which is the leader of the Arab world, and I am very happy for this. honor and I still love being here. , “and he sang for Egypt.

He spoke about the reason why he did not participate in an Egyptian work and spoke in the Egyptian dialect, saying: The dialect of every artist derives from his identity, and does anyone accept the leader , Adel Imam in another language, and because I haven’t presented anything in the Egyptian dialect, because I adhere to my Syrian identity, and the Egyptian dialect is an identity and not a language, but I hold to use the terminology used in the countries in which I present my plays so that the public can understand us and excite them.

And about the secret of his love for children, he explained, “They are our future, and that’s the reason I take care of them and treat them like a little human being able to absorb, and they are sometimes wiser than adults, and we learn spontaneous philosophies from them. I learned about my granddaughter’s faith, and her love for the Creator, and it did to me when I see a phrase written on the walls. , “and” I go to the head of wisdom is the love of God. “

And he continued, “A sheikh saw me in one of the streets and told me that you are religious. I told him no, I am a believer. He told me what the difference was, and I told him, and I always explained to them the matter in the deep understanding between religiosity and faith and I was convinced, and I hope people are in control of their minds, and as Ibn Rushd said, the commerce of the religion is most popular in societies where ignorance prevails.

The great director, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, was keen to say: “I am very happy with you, and I have been looking to direct here for a while, and I had the hope and a dream of making a film that brings Duraid with the artist Adel Imam. , and I took action on it, but the matter stopped, and we still love your presence among us. Duraid replied, saying We have to keep dreaming and crying to achieve what we want, and I hope to do some work with the leader, Adel Imam.

As for director Basil Al-Khatib, he addressed Duraid and said: together and I hope it will be presented next year at the Alexandria Festival. He provides support to Arab stars.

While critic Majdi Al-Tayeb said: “I have a very strong relationship with artist Duraid Laham, he’s a great poet, and he sent me a response before that, in which he wrote: “My love is without borders”. Until then, he is preoccupied with the problems of the Arab world, and I thank him for what he has given us and for his awareness of the message of art since the beginning of his career.

He concluded the conversation with Tunisian production manager Ali Al-Zaeem, who said: I have a special relationship with artist Duraid Baham and with Syria, and it is the only cinema that has had around 12,000 spectators at the Carthage Festival, and it is very successful in Arab countries.