Saif Subaie on the Syrian Artists Syndicate: The problem is not with individuals.

Following the controversy surrounding the Syrian Artists Syndicate, the cancellation of memberships, and the decisions to dismiss the head of the syndicate, among other things, Syrian director Saif al-Din al-Subaie commented on these decisions, revealing that the members of the Central Council are elected at the General Conference and are only dismissed at the General Conference.

Rafiq Subaie's experience in the union During an interview on the “Studio Al Arab” program, Subaie spoke about his father’s experience in 1984, noting that “the late artist Rafiq Subaie ran for the position of syndicate head against artist Suhair Kanaan, who was the candidate of the Arab Socialist Baath Party. After his father’s victory in the elections was announced by a margin of 10 votes, and after the celebrations by the syndicate members, they were informed that a telegram had arrived for artists from Algeria with 10 votes to vote for Kanaan, despite this being against the laws at the time.”

Recent decisions are illegal Al-Subaie emphasized that “the decisions taken by the current Syndicate Council are illegal because it is an unelected council. The crisis lies within the Syndicate, and the current council’s mission is limited to preparing a law for the new Syndicate Council, which will restore the Syndicate’s form of union work so that it can fulfill its role of standing by artists, even against the state, because it is the Artists Syndicate, in order to restore the Syndicate to its members.”

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The crisis lies with the union, not with the individuals.

He emphasized that "the crisis lies within the union, not with individuals," noting that the solution lies in the union reclaiming its true role as an institution for artists, caring for and defending them, rather than one that grants nationality certificates to some individuals and revokes them from others.

Major decisions and cancellations The current head of the Artists Syndicate, Mazen Al-Nattour, had cancelled the membership of the Syndicate Council members shortly after their appointment, and appointed a new group of artists in their place. This sparked widespread controversy in the artistic community and on social media, as they considered it to be a shambles in the Syndicate.