“Death is sweet, children.” The passing of screenwriter Fouad Hamira

The Syrian writer and screenwriter Fouad Hamira passed away today, Friday, in Egypt, in Egypt. He took refuge in France after the Syrian war and lived in Egypt for many years after leaving the country in opposition to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, following a heart attack at the age of 59.

Latest post by screenwriter Fouad Hamira Fouad Hamira’s latest posts sparked widespread controversy and astonishment, as if he expected his death hours before it happened, and as if his heart felt that separation had come, so he tried to reassure his friends and loved ones that the “greatest fear” was not bad, but rather “sweet,” as he described it. Where he wrote, “Yes, this death is sweet, children.”

Celebrities mourn Fouad Hamira Syrian and Arab writers and actors mourned the Syrian screenwriter who announced many years ago through his social media accounts the famous series “A Gazelle in the Valley of the Wolves.”

Syrian screenwriter Samer Radwan wrote on his official Facebook account, “Bereavement eats away at your heart every day... and it increases in breadth and tears whenever one of your beautiful friends leaves.”

He added: “(Fouad Hamira), one of the professors of dramatic writing in Syria, and the author of works that a blind person cannot pass by without raising a hat of respect, leaves carrying in a bag of oppression his years of disappointment and exile. So tragic is your departure, O learned professor.”

Who is Fouad Hamira? Fouad Hamira, born in 1965, worked as a journalist, holding the position of editor-in-chief of “Al-Dustour” newspaper for ten years.

While his beginnings were in the field of Syrian drama through the “Youth Theater,” then in the University Theater and the “Workers’ Theater.”

After that, he met the artist and director Salim Sabry, who took his hand and taught him the correct foundations in writing scripts for television dramas.

After that, he presented his series Al-Hasram Al-Shami “2007”, while his most prominent works include the series “Hot Winter” (2009), “Imam Al-Shafi’i” (2007) and “Narrow Corridors” (2007), in addition to his dramatic participation in the fourth part of the series “Al-Haiba”. (2019).