Hatem Ali’s drama does not end. He died in a year and is buried another year

Fate decided that the year of Hatem Ali’s death was different from the year of his burial, after his death came, Tuesday, the 29th of this month, for him to be buried, the first of l next year, according to the epithet issued on behalf of his family, his wife’s family and families close to them, today Thursday.

In the obituary of the oldest Syrian filmmaker, it was stated that Ali will proceed to his burial from Shami Hospital in Damascus and pray for him in the Hassan Mosque, which is the place where condolences will be received for his departure, in the area of ​​”Abu Rummaneh” after the Friday prayer, which falls on January 1, 2021..

Hatem Ali

And it was announced that Syrian director Hatem Ali died in Cairo on Tuesday after a heart attack. As soon as the news of his death became known, social networking sites turned into platforms that squandered condolences for the departure of the director, considered the best Syrian director and the owner of the best Syrian series, as well as his personal qualities that unite all who mourn his departure, including academics, artists, intellectuals and Arab viewers, whom he valued at the highest level. Moral and personal, as Lebanese singer Assi Helani describes in a condolence tweet.

After the sudden death that shocked the Arab arts community and lovers of art, television and culture, stars across the Arab world came together to offer expressions of condolence laden with feelings of pain and tragedy.

Although Ali started out as a writer and then an actor after graduating from the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, in the eighties of the last century, he turned to the art of directing, and he left imprints in which the oldest directors became, and he became the first Syrian director of historical and non-historical works, in what is ranked The best Syrian director and the author of the best historical works and Arabs, in addition to the series “Zeer Salem” in 2000.

Ali left major works for Arab drama, such as Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, Omar, Saqr Quraish, King Farouk, and many other works that made him the best Syrian director and the author of the best arabic series.

Ali, at the age of 58, born in the occupied Syrian Golan, died in 1962, then he and his family moved to the countryside of the Syrian capital, and from Damascus he obtained an institute of theatrical arts and appeared for the first time in 1988, in the series “Circle of Fire” to continue his work, like, That he concluded everything by directing, therefore he made the most important Arab series which was between the historical and the social, and his production of the series “Zeer Salem” marked a radical turning point in his career and the course of the Syrian drama. Then he moved on to other works that have all immortalized him, in the hearts of those close to him, from the ocean to the Gulf.