Saadallah Wannous

Saadallah Wannous was born on 27 March 1941 in Husayn al-Bahr, near Tartus. A scholarship student, he studied journalism in Cairo, where the break-up of the Syrian-Egyptian union marked him, then theatre in Paris. Back in Damascus, he directed a children's magazine, founded the city's theatre festival with Alaeddine Kokash and helped create the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. Suffering from cancer, he continued to write, became in 1996 the first Arab author to write the message for World Theatre Day, and died in Damascus on 15 May 1997.

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• TheatreRituals of Signs and Transformationsطقوس الإشارات والتحولاتSaadallah Wannous · 1996Literature