Gulf drama, including Emirati, is associated with a number of stars who left a great artistic imprint, and among them is the name "Mohammed Al-Janahi", which today, June 20, marks the twelfth anniversary of his death after a struggle with illness.
Emirati radio actor and director Mohammed Al Janahi is considered one of the pioneers of art in the UAE as he began his artistic career in 1967 and participated in many TV, radio and theatrical series in many Gulf and Arab countries in addition to television works in the Emirates, bringing to more than 200 TV works Between series, episodes and evenings.
Al-Janahi was nicknamed the "Dean of Emirati Art" and one of his symbols, and he is credited with establishing the artistic and dramatic movement in the Emirates.
He was born in 1940 and started his artistic career in 1967. He was one of the most famous artists of his time in the Emirates and the Arab world, and he was appointed as the first ambassador of Emirati art in Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and Egypt.
Al-Janahi is best known for the personality of “McDet”, which he presented in the Shafhan series, which is one of the works that gained wide fame in the Emirates and the Gulf states and one of the most famous and oldest works presented by Muhammad Al-Janahi to television, and it is still being broadcasted on satellite channels to this day, and it is one of the works that won Very famous in the Emirates.
Shefan spanned 37 episodes with a purposeful comedic character and marked the start of Al Janahi and his companions. One of the most famous TV works for him.
And the pioneers of social networking sites still mention the name of Muhammad Al-Janahi on their pages, and they remember his previous works, and they publish sections of them.
The pioneers of networking sites also commemorate the death of Al-Janahi every year, and they have mercy on him, and some describe his art as "exceptional." They also describe his generation as "the generation of pioneers" on Emirati radio, television and theater.
One of the followers on the networking site "Twitter" said: "The late great artist Mohammed Al-Janahi ... has been for the past 40 years a civilizational and cultural façade of the Emirates."
Some of his most famous television works were presented by "The Diaspora Days", "Jewels", "Shams Al-Qawayel", "Hayer Tayer", "Hawk Al-Jabal", "It is Time", "Harim Buhilal", and "The Two Brothers" , “Days of patience”, “Dreams of the years”, “Bounasir and his families”, “prisoner papers”, and judges in Islam ”... and other other works, and the late was a competent radio director, as he is considered the spiritual father of radio works in Abu Dhabi by submitting more than four hundred radio work.
The last work of Muhammad Al-Janahi (Hayer Tayer) was a social satirical comic series, with separate episodes, with each episode discussing local and national immediate issues.
It is noteworthy that, before his death, Al-Janahi traveled to Singapore where he was on a medical trip, but Al-Minyah passed away there in the year 2008, at the age of 68.