Yasser Al-Masri ( ar, ياسر المصري) (22 November 1970 – 23 August 2018) was a Kuwaiti-born

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

ian-

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

actor.

Biography

Yasser Al-Masri was born in

Kuwait City Kuwait City ( ar, مدينة الكويت) is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the Persian Gulf, it is the political, cultural and economical centre of the emirate, ...

to a family of seven brothers and sisters. He graduated from Al-Rumaithiya Secondary School. He held a BA in Music Science from the

Jordan Academy of Music Jordan Academy of Music is a private university located in Amman, Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, ...

, majoring in the clarinet and piano. In 2000, he married a journalist in the Jordanian newspaper Al Ra'i, Nisreen al-Kurd, with whom he had three children.

Career

Yasser Al-Masri had been involved in the art movement since the early 1990s through the "Theater Theater" group founded by Khaled Al-Tarifi in 1994. He began as an actor in the film ''Ya Ya Sama'in'', and his talent burst in 2007 with his performance of the role of Nimr bin Adwan, a poet in the series ''Nimr bin Adwan''. He participated in many Jordanian and Arab historical dramas. He participated in many local and Arab festivals through a series of theater performances. He served as a coach for the National Division of the Ministry of Culture, representing Jordan in most Arab and international festivals. In August 2016 he was chosen by the Higher Organizing Committee of the Jordan Media Festival for his third session to present the opening ceremony, with the participation of his colleague

Ola Al-Fares Ola Al-Fares ( ar, علا الفارس, born November 6, 1985) is a Jordanian lawyer, journalist and television presenter who works at Al Jazeera. She is currently the second most followed Jordanian woman on Twitter after Queen Rania. Most known ...

. Some of his series include ''

Dawa'er Hob ''Dawa'er Hob'' (), ( English: ''Circles of Love'') is an Arabic television series produced in 2014. The series revolves around family relations and social life among a group of characters. Three girls live in Abu-Dhabi and search love in their ...

'' (Circles of Love), the second season of '' Al-Gama'a'', ''Underground'' (Taht El-Ard), and ''Abu Jafar Al-Mansur''. In 2010 he established a production company in Jordan called ''Al Rai''.

Death

He died on 23 August 2018 at the age of 47 after a traffic crash in

Zarqa Zarqa ( ar, الزرقاء) is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue (city)". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the most populous city in Jordan after Amman. Geography Zarqa is located in t ...

in Jordan when he was visiting his brother's house on the

Eid al-Adha Eid al-Adha () is the second and the larger of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam (the other being Eid al-Fitr). It honours the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son Ismail (Ishmael) as an act of obedience to Allah's co ...

feast. He wanted to help his neighbor to run a bus that did not work by quickly descending a slope. His nephew, who led the bus on its way down, lost control of it, causing it to collide with a parked car and a wall. He died instantly and his funeral was held in Al Falah Mosque in that city.تفاصيل جديدة في حادثة وفاة الفنان ياسر المصري

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