Add/Update Information: Qasim Mohammad - Director

He was born in 1934 in Baghdad. His father initially objected to his joining the Institute of Fine Arts, but Qasim applied to the institute in 1955, where he studied at the hands of pioneers, such as Ibrahim Jalal. In 1960, Qasim joined the Modern Artistic Theater Troupe and presented a number of experimental plays, such as: The Palm and the Neighbors, and Once Upon a Time, which he wrote and directed. In the mid-sixties, he traveled to Moscow to complete his studies in theatrical arts and he graduated from the State Institute there in 1968, after which he returned to Iraq. He won a number of awards and appreciation certificates in many countries, including the Best Director Award at the 1987 Carthage Festival for the play The Door. In recent years, an edition of the Children’s Theater Festival was named after him, in appreciation of his role in enriching the children’s theater through the pioneering works he presented to this theater, most notably the play The Bird of Joy. He also published many books on theater in addition to theatrical scripts, the last of which was published in 2008 by the Department of Culture and Information in Sharjah within the studies of the theatrical series, entitled Shakespearean Visual Works. He died in the UAE at the age of 75, in 2009.