Biographies: Hussein Adlabi - Actor

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Hussein Adlabi was born in Aleppo in 1939. He obtained a diploma in theater directing from Austria and took a course in preparing and directing documentaries from the Arab Radio Union and a course in preparing and directing children's programs from the Arab Radio Union. He participated as an actor in many television, theatrical, and cinematic works, making his stage debut in 1957, during the period of unity between Syria and Egypt. At that time, a professor from the Southern Province (Egypt as it was called at the time) helped him to get a role in the play The Death of Cleopatra by Ahmed Shawqi, then he joined the People's Theater. He participated in many plays, such as Gogol's The Inspector General and Moliere’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. In 1960, he participated in a competition to select a number of students to study theater directing in Egypt. He decided to leave the Faculty of Law at the University of Aleppo, to realize his dream, but the separation between Syria and Egypt prevented that. Thus, the scholarship was transferred from Egypt to West Germany, but the Syrian Ministry of Culture “forgot” to enroll students in faculties according to their specializations, or to secure places for them to live. He moved to Austria in 1963, to study theater in a small institute located in the southern city of Graz.

• 8 May 2022
• Dalia Saad