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30.12.2020 / 15:42
Hatem Ali, Influential Syrian Director, Actor, Dies at 58
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentHatem Ali, the influential Syrian multi-hyphenate whose hit historical TV dramas provided collective insight across the Arab world on the roots and complexities of the region’s turbulence, died on Tuesday at 58. The cause of death, which took place in a Cairo hotel, was a heart attack, according to multiple Middle East news reports.Born in 1962 in Syria’s Golan Heights, the strategic region occupied by Israel in 1967, Ali started out writing short