Amid tears and prayers, Hatem Ali "rests" in the soil of his homeland, Syria
Large crowds participated in the farewell of Hatem Ali.
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Amid tears, prayers and applause of homage, the funeral of director Hatem Ali took place in the Syrian capital, Damascus, after Friday prayers.
Large crowds participated in the funeral, and a number of the most prominent Syrian stars, including Basem Yakhour, Tim Hassan, Slafa Maamar, Nancy Khoury, Samer Barqawi, Ghassan Masoud, Sulaf Fawakherji, Wael Ramadan, Antoinette Naguib, and others.
The feelings of emotion and sadness appeared on everyone in the farewell of one of the most important Arab filmmakers, and the creative multi-talented (writer, actor and director) who enriched Arab drama with many masterpieces, to impose his name and his own imprint on the screen, and to become a sign of the beautiful art of the Arab viewer.
Hatem Ali died last Tuesday after a heart attack in a hotel in the Egyptian capital Cairo, at the age of 58, and his body arrived in his homeland yesterday, to rest today in the soil of his homeland Syria at the Bab al-Saghir cemetery in Damascus.
The Hassan Mosque in Damascus was filled with worshipers, and some carried pictures of it.
As soon as the coffin came out of the mosque, the crowds began to applaud and zoom in, chanting his name.
Dozens of cars drove the funeral procession that roamed the streets of Damascus, before it was buried in the Bab al-Saghir cemetery.
Syrian and Arab social media sites were flooded with the mourning of the director, who has enriched the Arab art library with some of the most famous television works in recent decades.
And the sudden death of Ali in his room in a Cairo hotel was a shock, especially since he was not complaining about any health symptoms.
His body was received in Damascus by a number of Syrian artists, including Shukran Murtaja, Sulaf Fawakherji and Wael Ramadan.
Among the most prominent works of the late are the series: “Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi”, “Zeer Salem,” “The Andalusian Quartet,” “Tear Sticks,” “The Palestinian Westernization,” “Omar”, “King Farouk”, “Underground” and “Ah this What has become », and other masterpieces, in addition to cinema works.
And after the death of Hatem Ali, farewell posts and testimonials on social networking sites that afflicted the late director poured out the majority of the stars of the artistic community, Arabs and Syrians.
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