| Shaimaa Saied |
A Syrian writer and lawyer, born in Damascus. She studied law at the University of Damascus. During that time, she joined the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, Acting Department, despite her family’s objection. She graduated in 1986 from the Institute and was top of her class, and in 1987, she obtained a diploma in criminal sciences. When director Fawaz Al Sajer offered her the role of the queen in the play The Cave Dwellers, she could not resist the offer, so she worked in the play under the pseudonym Ghalyia Ali. She then appeared in the play Rape, written by Saadallah Wannous and directed by Jawad Al Asadi.
She shifted from acting to writing, while law remained her profession, as she published a number of short stories in the cultural supplement of the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, and she wrote her first television film called Vacation, directed by Haitham Hakki. Her other writing credits include the series Four Seasons, as well as the play The Story of Sheikh Abu Khalil Al-Qabbani and the Governor Medhat Pasha (2008).
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