The death of the Lebanese actor Hussam Al-Sabah
The Lebanese actor and theater director, Hussam Al-Sabah, died today, Saturday, at the age of 73, of wounds sustained as a result of a traffic accident in southern Lebanon.
Al-Sabah was transferred 10 days ago to a hospital in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, where he remained in a coma until he died this morning.
The Lebanese Ministry of Culture said in a statement, "With the departure of the actor and director, the able artist, Hussam Al-Sabah, the artistic and cultural arena has lost a distinguished talent and a representative performance through which the late personified the characters and communicated them to the public in a professional manner saturated with artistic culture."
Hussam Al-Sabah is a Lebanese actor and director from the city of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon. He started his life participating in theatrical works in youth clubs before entering the world of professionalism and played a pivotal role in the play (The Sieve) that was presented in Nabatiyeh in 1970.
He participated in the play (The Darkness of the Night) by the late poet Taan Asaad, which included songs composed by Elie Choueiri and Azar Habib.
And a student at the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut, Al-Sabah collaborated with senior theater directors, including Roger Assaf, Yaqoub Al-Shadrawi, Raif Karam, Mashour Mustafa and others, and founded the (Sinbad) troupe that performed the play (Devastate Our Moon, O Whale) in 1977.
Along with Al-Shadrawi, Al-Sabah also performed the plays (The Eighth Sindbad Journey) and (Al-Tartour). He also participated, alongside Rafiq Ali Ahmad, Hanan Hajj Ali and Ziad Abu Abbasi, in the play (Gibran and Al-Qaeda).
He appeared on the popular stage with the actor Ahmed Al-Zein in the play (The Martyr Ibn Al-Balad) in 1984 by director Nicolas Daniel, a collaboration that led him in the following year to direct the play (The Hornet) written by Rafik Nasrallah and starring Ahmed Al-Zein.
Al-Sabah played influential roles in many Lebanese films, including (Beirut Al-Liqa ') by Burhan Alawiya, (The Explosion) by Rafiq Hajjar, (Al-Mazazif) by Youssef Sharaf al-Din, and (The Kidnapped) by Ibrahim Maraachli.
Al-Sabah continued to appear in many Lebanese and Syrian TV series, including “Popular Lanterns” by Rashid Alama and “Quraysh” by George Ghayyad.
Before his death, Al-Sabah was a guest in the Ramadan series, where he appeared in the series (2020) by Lebanese actress Nadine Najim and Syrian actor Qusay Khouli.
