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- Country of residence: Syria
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Daoud Mahmoud Yaqoub (1939-1986) His first theatrical activity started through a theater group established by the Arab Youth Club, which was affiliated with the Arab Nationalist Movement led by George Habash. This band was also attended by Salim Sabry and Bassam Lotfi, and that was during the Arab union with Egypt. The band presented some of its plays on the stage of the Cultural Club, which was affiliated with Egypt before the union and continued to be active after that, and whose headquarters was in Abu Rummaneh Street. He was an eloquent orator, present in mind and able to inflame enthusiasm in his listeners.
Origin and beginning
Daoud Yaqoub was born in Tirat Haifa in 1939 and in the year of the Nakba in 1948 he was displaced with his family to Syria at the age of nine years. He owned a library rich in literature, heritage and politics, containing more than six thousand books.
Daoud’s artistic start was with the Ansar theater group, which was run by the late artist Sabri Ayyad, and he was moving from one band to another, where he worked with the symposium of thought and art, and joined the National Theater since its establishment and participated as an actor in two plays “The Falsified” in 1958 and “Heroes of Our Country” in 1960, He was one of the first who contributed to the establishment of Palestine Radio in Damascus, out of his belief in the cause of his people, and the necessity of conveying the voice of the Palestinian people to the world.
In 1968, he became a member of the Syndicate of Artists in the Syrian Arab Republic. He also participated with a number of fellow editors in establishing the Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists, and had a prominent role in establishing the General Union of Palestinian Artists. In its first session, he was elected Secretary-General, in 1970. .
Daoud Yaqoub Ghamar also underwent an experience, the first of its kind in the Palestinian diaspora, where he contributed with a number of Palestinian artists to the establishment of the Palestinian National Theatre, and what the poet Khaled Abu Khaled mentions about that stage: “Daoud Yaqoub had a point of view in the establishment of our General Union For Palestinian writers and journalists... and one of the initiators to participate in its founding from his influential position in the base of our Palestinian people.”
In 1963, Daoud Yaqoub joined the media field, beginning as a broadcaster on the “Voice of Palestine” radio station from Damascus, after which he moved to work in the Broadcasters Division at the Public Authority for Radio and Television. The period he started working in the drama department to work with his colleagues as an actor, producer of cultural and literary programs, a writer for radio dramas, and a radio director.
Activities
Daoud Yaqoub was distinguished by his many technical abilities, starting with broadcasting programs and news bulletins and ending with writing. Daoud was skillful in his work and giving, especially during the October liberation war, of which he was proud because it was always his dream and he was proud of the Arab arms that united on the day of October liberation and set out to fight under one banner. After the war, he started thinking, working and writing, and his first work was about that war (the October War), a novel “Flowers Scented with Blood” by Dr. Abd al-Salam al-Ajili, which Daoud prepared and directed in 1978.
the fame
And because Abu Yazan, the nickname he was famous for, was present in mind, he was rightly considered, through his distinguished voice, to be one of the few men of speech who left their mark clearly in all Syrian and Arab radio and television studios.
Daoud Yaqoub was an Arab of pen and personality, with all the pride, dignity and manliness in this word, and he was loyal to his friends and colleagues in their lives and after their death. What he said in the lamentation of the late radio host Adel Khayyat: “Oh, the beloved late... The day I first met you, you were to me a voice that pulled me in. To him enchanted me, and the day I was able to match you was my collar to get to know your experience an unlimited collar, I did not take my hand to the “microphone” that day I knew that you are not only a voice, but a person who carries in his depths tremendous capabilities, charging his voice with all the conflicting emotions in his depths, and the able director From his art and his work, an idea, his sense, and his art, whichever is greater... Your ambition or your potential fulfillment for you on the day of your departure I say: they were equal, but despair was a barrier between them and it is not easy to search today for the causes of despair and its motives, because in the depths of the artist there are desires and tendencies that cannot be explored and identified. To it except through giving and through your giving, the fear of death was pulling you to it, so you were running away from it to it. Direct your walk, flow and collar to Life, and the day you were unable to face these pains, silence followed you, you stopped talking to others, a barrier stands between you and them that pushes many of those who did not really know you wondering why they ignore us. You only saw what was in your depths ecstatic with her and you kept living with her until she left and left with you, she left and left us here with your tracks with your voice that was the way to know millions of you and their love for you this love that was sometimes characterized by cruelty for fear of you and the friendliness, gentleness and tenderness of your childhood that grew up and did not grow up With you, innocence remained in your eyes, in your relationships, in your vision of life.
affiliation
Although the early fifties witnessed the beginning and emergence of national parties and movements, such as the Arab Nationalist Movement, the Baath Party along with the already existing communist parties and others, David had a different opinion, that belonging to Palestine is greater and more important than belonging to parties, and serving the cause is broader and man is free from factionalism.
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