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Filmmaker · Syria

Nabil Maleh

Died in 2016

Nabil Maleh was born in Damascus on 28 September 1936 and went to study nuclear physics in Prague; appearing as an extra in a Czech film, he discovered cinema and obtained a master's degree in directing there. Returning in 1964, he worked for the state body and for fifty years made fiction films, short films and documentaries. Imprisoned at the time of the union with Egypt, he later received the prize for directing in Cairo and a tribute from the Dubai festival in 2006. Having left Damascus after 2011, he died in Dubai on 24 February 2016 and was buried there.

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