{"id":88902,"date":"2016-09-24T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=88902"},"modified":"2016-09-24T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T12:43:25","slug":"duraid-lahham-honored-by-alexandria-film-festival-for-mediterranean-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=88902","title":{"rendered":"Duraid Lahham honored by Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries honored the well-known artist Duraid Lahham during a symposium held within the 32nd edition of the festival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-88904\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-3-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"duraid-lahham-alexandria-film-festival-for-mediterranean-countries-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-3-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-3.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long documentary film summing up some stages of Lahham&#8217;s life was screened.<\/p>\n<p>Lahham, who is a leading Syrian comedian and director born 1934 in Damascus, said he was excited about the film, which is directed by the Egyptian Maji Anwar.<\/p>\n<p>The famous Syrian actor, who grew up in poverty, gave advise to young actors to be patient as they will have to endure so many failures before achieving real success.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the symposium, head of the festival presented a special honorary shield to Lahham for his participation in this year&#8217;s edition and for his works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-88903\" src=\"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"duraid-lahham-alexandria-film-festival-for-mediterranean-countries-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Duraid-Lahham-Alexandria-Film-Festival-for-Mediterranean-Countries-2.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lahham was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador to the Middle East and North Africa region in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Syria is taking part in the festival within five events out of six. A number of drama series and movie makers also are among the juries.<\/p>\n<p>H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries honored the well-known artist Duraid Lahham during a symposium held within the 32nd edition of the festival. A long documentary film summing up some stages of Lahham&#8217;s life was screened. Lahham, who is a leading Syrian comedian and director born 1934 in Damascus, said he was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6987,106],"tags":[11317,11318],"class_list":["post-88902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-latest-news","category-syria-and-the-world","tag-alexandria-film-festival-for-mediterranean-countries","tag-duraid-lahham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}