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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Qasim was born on January 1, 1942 in Saffuriyya, Nazareth District. He lived there for a few years and is the descendant of a large family from Saffuriyya that took refuge in Syria following the 1948 catastrophe.
He began working in school theater in 1954, specifically in Damascus primary schools and then to preparatory school in the Industry School. After that, he moved in a number of local Syrian groups, including the Syrian Acting Band, the Azbakeya Club, and the clubs that were affiliated with the Relief Agency in the Palestinian camps, and after that he joined a group. A play affiliated with the Fatah movement, and its name was the Fatah Theater Group.
In 1965, they presented a number of plays with no less than 15 performances, and the participating performances were 100 theatrical works. Then the Liberation Organization adopted this troupe and its name became the Palestinian National Theater Troupe, in addition to his participation over the past years in dozens of artistic works.
Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Qasim died on April 10, 2020, in Damascus, after suffering a heart attack, at the age of seventy-eight years.
In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture mourned the artist Abdel Rahman Abu Al-Qasim, who is considered one of the founders of Arab and Palestinian theater in the diaspora.
The Ministry's statement stated that Al-Qassem contributed to the establishment of the Palestinian National Theater, and worked on the renaissance of the Palestinian theatrical movement after the outbreak of the revolution, as he believed in the role of the intellectual and the artist in supporting the struggle to protect the goals and objectives of liberation.
Pointing out that the Arab artistic movement and the Palestinian cultural scene lost one of its creative symbols whose creative work influenced and enriched Arab theaters and television, through the rich and distinguished artistic productions of the late great, and that Abu al-Qasim’s contributions and his various roles will remain landmarks from which future generations will learn, and Saffuriyya will remain a land. The dream and the reality remember his return to it in 2012, and his steps on its soil, and the rhythm of the ever-returning lover of its land.
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