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Jawad Al Shakarchi is an Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

i actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

and dramatist.
He has participated in more than 60 Arab

Arab

Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

and international theatre festivals, and received dozens of awards, including that of Best Actor in Cairo's Theatre Festival 1989, a medal of honour from the Carthage Theatre Festival in Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

1995 and many more.
He started his theatre career at 16; when he joined the troupe of Iraqi-Soviet Friendship Society in 1966.

Al-Shakarchi witnessed the Iraqi artistic renaissance in the late 1960s and worked with pioneers such as Yousif Al Ani, who took the Iraq

Iraq

i theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

from brash imitations of international classics to performing original Iraq

Iraq

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A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...

.

When asked about how he felt when former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

was removed from office, he quotes:
"I am not a Saddam fan, but at the same time I am totally against changing the government of my country through a foreign invasion."

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