Baghdad: Zaidan Al-Rubaie
The Iraqi Artists Syndicate mourned the departure of the Iraqi artist and director Faeq Al-Hakim, who passed away due to an incurable disease.
The late, born in 1940, graduated in Germany with a major in drama, holds a master’s degree in German literature in 1968, returned to Germany in the beginning of 1970 to complete his postgraduate studies, and obtained a doctorate at the end of 1971, after which he moved to work in the United States of America as a professor of the German language at a university, California, in Los Angeles. He returned to Iraq in 1975 and worked as a professor of theater history at the College of Fine Arts in Baghdad, Department of Dramatic Arts. In addition to his academic work, he published a book in two parts, called “History of Theater”, then wrote the book “Eight Plays for the Child” and then directed some of them, such as the play “The Lost Doll”. And “House of Animals”, a play directed to children under school age, which was a workshop to introduce children’s theater and ways to deal with it, where a German director was invited, who directed the play for students of the theater department at the academy. He also directed the play “The Rule and the Exception” by the German writer Bertolt Brecht, then his theatrical works coincided with his academic work until 1978, when the director, Faisal Al-Yasiri, commissioned him to dub some private dialogues for the characters “Anis” and “Badr” in the first part of “Iftah Ya Simsim.” Then the series “Around the World in 80 Days” was also dubbed in Iraq. He left Iraq in 1980 and settled there in Kuwait, after he was summoned by the “Joint Program Production Corporation for the Arab Gulf States” and assigned to manage the dubbing department in the institution, where he supervised many works. He also worked for German and Italian stations.
In 1987, he and his family moved to Morocco to work and live, where he established a private company for artistic production, and he produced films and programs for the benefit of Moroccan, Arab and regional institutions, including films for the Islamic Organization for Education, Culture and Science, ISESCO, films and programs for UNICEF, awareness and education programs for the Moroccan Ministry of Health, and he married a woman. Actress Sana Al-Takmaji, and he had two sons.
