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Mahmoud Said

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  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1941
  • Age: 81
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Mahmoud Saeed (December 15, 1941 - December 30, 2014), Palestinian actor and commentator.

about his life
Mahmoud Saeed was born in the Palestinian city of Jaffa on December 15, 1941, and moved at the age of seven to live with his mother in the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon, while his brothers were striving in the “Salvation Army” in defense of Palestine, whose people had been displaced by the Israeli enemy in 1948.

He lives in Lebanon. He played the role of Khaled bin Al-Waleed in Mustafa Al-Akkad's movie The Message. After the civil war, he went to Jordan and performed a large number of series, including: (Attab), after which he returned to Lebanon, distinguished by his distinguished voice.

his works
Deer, (film).
The Message as Khaled bin Al-Walid (film)
Wadi Al Deer (Bedouin).
Fares and Najoud (TV series).
Flashes of our history.
Torment (TV series).
Mischief-makers on Earth (TV series).
Earth Hawks anime cartoon as narrator
Antar, Knight of the Desert, with Samira Tawfik (film)
Our home movie. Voice presenter for the Arabic version (documentary)
Khayal Al-Auja (Bedouin Evening)
Upbringing and working life
Any listener could distinguish Mahmoud Saeed's voice from among all the sounds. He is the owner of the low-pitched throat that, in addition to his talent, made him an undisputed star in dozens of dramatic and “Bedouin” television and radio series, which was recorded for his glory. The hero of "Fares and Nujood", who left imprints in the consciousness of the Lebanese and Arab television viewers, especially in the seventies, was born in the Palestinian city of Jaffa in 1941. At the age of seven, the mother (a member of the Beirut-based al-Bunni family) carried her youngest son and brought him to Sidon, while His brothers were striving in the Salvation Army in defense of Palestine, whose people had been expelled by the Israeli enemy in 1948.

Because of the father’s death, his mother enrolled him in the Islamic Orphanage, where he continued his studies until high school, and joined UNRWA schools, where he studied until the second year of high school, “and after that I started working on myself in study and language.” At that time, Shafik Jadayel, the head of the announcers department at the "Lebanese Radio", used to frequent the orphanage to organize a theatrical work at the end of each academic year. There, Jadayel discovered the child Mahmoud's talent in acting and performance, "and he has been attributed to me starring roles in a number of plays." In 1959, the young man, who was fond of art, did not hesitate to present himself to a match conducted by the "Lebanese Radio" for actors and broadcasters. The committee was composed of Elie Daher, Wajeeh Nasser, Nizar Mikati, Muhammad Shamil and others, and Mahmoud Saeed Al-Jarirah was chosen to be a representative and performer on the radio. “Once I followed the path of art, I called myself Mahmoud Saeed, and it helped me that the curators of radio programs were the most important creators of radio art in the Arab world, such as Abdul Majeed Abu Laban, Subhi Abu Lughod, Ghanem Al-Dajani, Kamel Qustandi, and Sabri Al-Sharif. I learned the language and the letters’ exits from these, based on a great deal of listening to the recitation of the Qur’an in our home in the voice of my brother, and from readings that I continue to do until now.” On Lebanon TV, he made his first appearance in 1961 with a single “Bedouin” sentence on the program “Inspired by the Badia” attributed to him by Rashid Alama, in which he says: “Whatever you want to sleep, other than you want to sleep.” Among the appearances in the series "Abu Melhem" to "Hekmat the Court", "Thursday Theater" and "Beirut at Night" and the presentation of characters such as Alexander the Macedonian and Omar Khayyam; Rachid Alama chose him in more than one work for "Lebanon and Al-Mashreq TV", such as "The Secret of the Gharib" (1967) directed by Antoine Remy and prepared by scriptwriter Gilbahar Mumtaz, and it is the first series in classical Arabic. During this period, he had cinematic participations in a number of films such as “Antar Conquests the Desert” (1960), “Garo” (1965), “Saqr Al Arab” (1968) and “Prisoner of the Mihrab” (1969). After a while, Lebanon TV will become a local and Arab hub, and its directors will offer Mahmoud Saeed a “monopoly” contract in favor of the station, in return for three series per year. She fired me more and more locally and in the Arab world.” In 1970, our friend will be famous in Morocco and North Africa with his starring role in the series "The Loser" based on Emily Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights". “This series presented in Standard Arabic made a big leap for me, especially after it was shown on Moroccan and North African TV, where the population picked it up because they knew a lot about the original novel. When I visited that area, I found people calling me by my name in the series, “Gharib”... This name has stuck with me for a long time, even here in Lebanon.” After "The Loser", he presented in his program "From Our Heritage" (1970) 18 historical figures, including Ibn Sina, Al-Razi, Ibn Khaldun, and Al-Farabi. It was also presented by Antoine Remy in the series “Al-Sarab” with his wife Hind Abi Al-Lamaa in her first appearance and also combined them in the series “Groube”, until the first Bedouin series in the Arab world came “Fares and Nujood” (1974), in which he shared the starring role with Samira Tawfiq ( Excerpt from Elie Saadeh, based on a text by Nizar Muayyad al-Azm. The series' "Fares", the brown Bedouin youth, achieved wide fame, whose echoes have been reverberating for many years, and established a series of television and cinematic works in the Bedouin style, which were received by all Arab stations, and Samira Tawfiq participated in most of them. In 1976, the Syrian director, Mustafa Al-Akkad, decided to shoot the movie “The Message” about the biography of the Prophet Muhammad. Beirut. Al-Akkad did not ask Saeed to give an acting performance, but rather listened to him as he read from the biographies of historical figures. After that, he called me and said, “We chose you to play the role of Khaled bin Al-Waleed in the film.” I was overjoyed at the time, and the man treated me with all appreciation and respect... I will never forget him as long as I live.” He also participated in a number of works on Palestine, including the huge historical series "And Jerusalem Returns" and the movie "Fedak O Palestine". And when I caught the

 

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