Walid Kowatli aka Walid Al-Kowatli or Walid Al-Quwatli (
Arabic: وليد القوتلي) is a Syrian
theatre director and playwright, known for directing the Lak' bin Lak' written by
Emile Habibi and Waiting for Barbarians an
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of
Waiting for the Barbarians poem by
Constantine P. Cavafy.
Early life and education
Kowatli was born and grew up in
Damascus
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, Syria. He obtained his degree in Theater Direction from the
Institute of Art Studies (Krystov Sarafov, formerly) in
Sofia, Bulgaria
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, class of 1973.
Career
Kowatli headed the Acting Department at the
Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus from 1991 to 1992, before heading the acting department he joined the institute as a teacher in 1979 to teach the art of acting, the basics of directing and the theater laboratory.
From 1976 to 1999, he was appointed as director at the Department of TV drama in the
Syrian Arab TV, where he directed skits and plays the TV a number of them were directed to children and young.
In March 2012, he headed the jury for theater days for the Colleges of Applied Sciences in
Oman, and in the sixth Kalba Festival plays short in the UAE in 2017. In the same year, he received the Golden Shield commemorating the Syrian meeting in Dubai.
During the period from 2013 to 2017, he worked on a number of documents addressing Syrian children lost during wartime.
His work was presented on stages such as the Syrian National Theater and Al-Kabbani Theater in
Damascus
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and the
Sorbonne Theater in
Paris.
Kowatli directed nearly 30 predominantly experimental and poetic plays during his tenure in the theater career, and has worked with the rising generation artists in amateur bands such as
Waha Al-Raheb.
Work
Theatre
Television and documentaries
* ''2013: The Children of Syria Ascend to Heaven''
* ''2014: Bird of Fire''
* ''2015: Baptized with Fire''
* ''2016: Maram: The Assassination of a Dream''
Translations
* ''The Fox and the Grapes — play by
Guilherme Figueiredo'' (translated from English)
* ''Crazy Days — play by
Nikolai Gogol
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(''translated from Bulgarian)
* ''January — play by
Yordan Radychkov'' (translated from Bulgarian)
* ''The Art of Theater — book by
Boris Zakhava
Boris Yevgenyevich Zakhava (russian: link=no, Борис Евгеньевич Захава; May 24, 1896 – November 12, 1976) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director, pedagogue and theater theorist. People's Artist of the USSR (1967).
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* ''With Water — poet by
Salah Stétié
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References
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Syrian directors
People from Damascus
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)