Biographies: Jawad Al Asadi - Director

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An Iraqi theater artist, born in the city of Karbala in 1947. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Theater Department, in Baghdad in 1971 and acted in the play Splendor and Death of Joaquín Murieta, directed by Fadil Khalel. He obtained his doctorate from an institute in Bulgaria and studied at the Higher Institute in Dramatic Arts in Damascus. He directed a number of plays for the Palestinian theater between 1980 and 1992 and directed the play The Tot Family by the Hungarian István Örkény. The play won two gold awards at the Carthage Festival in Tunisia in 1983. He directed Saxophone Women and The Two Maids. He published several books, including "The Theater and the Palestinian in Us", "The Aesthetics of Rehearsal", and "Maryam’s Mirrors".

2 November 2021
Christina Aziz