Add/Update Information: Shaker Al Maatouq - Writer

A Kuwaiti writer, born on March 7, 1955. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Kuwait in 1979, specializing in criticism and theater literature. He began working in dramatic writing in the mid-seventies. He worked at the Ministry of Information in supervising series, in the department of script approval, and in 1986, he became a member of the committee on approving local and Arab filmed work. He joined the National Theater Troupe in Kuwait in 1982 as a drama supervisor. In 1992, he became a full-time writer, and wrote several television and radio works. Among his television dramas are the series Men's Tears, and The Agony of Yearning.