Abdel Salam Abu El Shamat

Biography

A Syrian stage actor, who is considered a pillar of Syrian radio and television in the fifties and sixties. In 1938, he got a lowly job in the Council of Ministers. He managed to establish an amateur troupe consisting of 15 actors, and he began to compose a large number of folk songs and colloquial poems, in which he spent eight years. Slowly, the troupe made a good name in Damascus, which at that time had no other means of entertainment than these troupes. The troupe also toured the Syrian countryside and traveled to Homs and Latakia. He died on September 5, 2014.