Add/Update Information: Romeo Yousif - Actor

An Iraqi actor, radio director and media personality of Assyrian origin, born in Baghdad. He joined the Modern Artistic Theater troupe in 1968 and participated in many plays between the years 1961-1974, including The Iron Harp at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad, as well as The Merchant of Venice with the National Acting Troupe. He participated in other plays such as Waiting for Kudo and Waiting for Death, in addition to several television and radio plays on Baghdad TV and Radio. He also acted and directed many plays in the Assyrian language by the Assyrian Sports and Cultural Clubs. He obtained a higher diploma at the University of Baghdad, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Theater 1960-1964, and is fluent in the English and Romanian languages. He traveled to Romania to complete his doctoral studies between 1975-1980 and obtained a doctorate in theater studies and education. He cooperated with the Arabic section of Radio Romania International (RRU). He then traveled to Canada and made a weekly radio program for the Eastern Assyrian Church near Toronto from 1988-1990. He returned to Romania and worked as an editor and broadcaster in the Arabic section of Voice of Romania World Radio from 1991 to 2006. He worked as a broadcaster and translator in the Iraqi section of Radio Free Europe.