The death of the Sudanese poet, journalist and radio station Al-Sir Kaddour

The Sudanese poet, writer and journalist Al-Sir Ahmed Kaddour died in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, at the age of 88.

The late El-Sir Kaddour is a multi-talented lyric poet. He is also a theater actor, journalist writer and TV presenter. He has made outstanding contributions to Sudanese drama arts, especially with the advent of television in the early 1960s.

He is also a composer of lyrics, a journalist who worked in the fields of politics, arts, variety and sports and a writer who has written documentaries on the art of singing and singers in Sudan.

Kaddour was born in the year 1934, in the village of Al-Jabarab, Ambori district, south of the city of Al-Damir, the capital of the River Nile State in northern Sudan. Kaddour grew up in a large artistic environment consisting of actors, poets and singers known to the residents of Al-Damir and its suburbs and famous for its great poets and writers, such as the poet Muhammad Al-Mahdi Al-Majzoub. And the literary world, Professor Abdullah Al-Tayeb, and Okair Al-Damer.

He studied the pots of "seclusion" and received some simple religious lessons in worship in "Khalawi Al-Qarchab" in his hometown, then in "Khalawi Sheikh Al-Majzoub Jalal Al-Din", where he memorized the Qur'an with the seven narrations.

The late was a self-made, diligent and fond of reading from a young age, so he succeeded in developing his own reading and writing ability and was able to raise his educational level to higher levels.

Al-Sir Qadour moved with his family from Al-Jabarab to Al-Shadenab in the city of Damer in northern Sudan after the flood of 1946 and moved again to the city of Omdurman, where his family settled.

Kaddour left Sudan in the seventies of the last century for Egypt with his Egyptian-born wife and daughters Soraya, Zainab, Nabila and Amal.

He lived for 26 continuous years in the Zamalek neighborhood in Cairo, and returned in 2000 to Sudan. In recent years, he has been recording and presenting the famous Ramadan program “Songs and Songs” on Blue Nile TV for a decade and a half, and he found a response from the audience for its simplicity and spontaneity. in submission.

At the beginning of his artistic life in the early fifties of the last century, Kaddour got acquainted with the symbols of modern lyrical poetry and the poets of the art portfolio in Sudan, and Nahl from some of their poems, memorizing their texts and chanting them with his voice. Abd al-Rahman, Syed Abdul-Aziz, Abd al-Rahman al-Rih, Muhammad Abdullah al-Umay, al-Jagrio, Wad al-Radhi, and others.

Kaddour made his way to the Sudanese Radio House early in his life and worked with a group of theater actors in preparing and presenting short radio skits that are broadcast within radio programs such as family, women and children programs, cooperation, agricultural and health extension, and others. Among these actors was Othman Hamida, the owner of the character «Tor Al-Jar», Abdul-Wahhab Al-Jaafari, Othman Al-Lord, Al-Fadil Saeed, Ahmed Atef and Ismail Khurshid.

Al-Sir Kaddour wrote a number of theatrical texts, including the plays “Al-Mismar”, “The Man Who Laughed Last”, “The Fourth Honeymoon” and “The Sharkbekah Solution”.

Al-Sir Kaddour participated in presenting short plays on the air, most of which are improvised and spontaneous, with the onset of television in Sudan in the seventies of the last century.

The late El-Sir Kaddour also worked on Radio Corner of Sudan from Cairo, Wadi El-Nile Radio and Blue Nile TV channel.

Kadour wrote many successful lyrical poems sung by great singers, including the poem “Ard Al-Khair” performed by Ibrahim Al-Kashef, the song “Sit Al Banat” by Salah Ibn Al Badia, “My Longing for You” performed by Muhammad Mirghani, and “I am with you” sung by Salah Muhammad Issa. And the poem “Oh my love, we met once” by musician Al-Aqib Muhammad Hassan and others.

And the Algerian singer Warda sang the poem "Al-Sir Kaddour", "Ask the Roses." The Syrian singer, Zina Aftimos, renewed the performance of his poem "Asmar Jamil", which was sung by the late Sudanese artist Ibrahim Al-Kashef.

Al-Sir is an author, and he has published four books documenting the art of Sudanese singing, the first is entitled “Sudanese Art in Fifty Years 1908-1958”, the second is entitled “The Bag, Poets and Artists”, and the third is the book “Ahmed Al-Mustafa, the Artist of the Age”, and the fourth is the book “Al-Kashef”. The father of art.

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