<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span lang="ar">On this day, December 29, 2020, director Hatem Ali passed away from our world, and his passing was a great shock to the Syrian and Arab artistic community in general.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Today is the third anniversary of the passing of one of the most important directors who left a huge mark on the world of art, and certainly every year some stars recall their memories of him and share sad and touching messages with followers on social media.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1554/816;" alt="Jafra Younes on the third anniversary of the passing of Hatem Ali Specialy" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/31a206b6-07c9-43ab-8526-09ec678aa329.png" ></figure><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(180, 75%, 60%);"><span lang="ar">Hatem Ali and the departure of the dearest people</span></span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Maha Al-Masry shared a photo of the late Hatem Ali via her Instagram story, and commented on it, “The third anniversary of the passing of the dearest people.” Mahyar Khaddour also shared a photo of the late person on Instagram.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Jafra Younis shared a photo from behind the scenes of one of the works with the deceased, and commented, “What makes any director’s career is not only those works that he accepts to submit, but also those works to which he says: No.”</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Rami Koussa wrote, “Three years after the most astonishing absence... on this day, Hatem Ali passed away.”</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Lynn Ghara also shared a photo of Hatem on Instagram on the anniversary of his death.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">It is noteworthy that director Hatem Ali passed away on December 29, 2020, following a heart attack at the age of 58.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1519/765;" alt="Rami Koussa on the third anniversary of Hatem Ali Specialy’s passing" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/3185a9fb-b466-4b1d-9814-6ef1693944cb.png" ></figure><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(180, 75%, 60%);"><span lang="ar">Who is Hatem Ali?</span></span></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Hatem Ali is a <a href="https://news.sbisiali.com/ar/news/article/celebrities-continue-to-announce-their-donations-to-the-victims-of-the-earthquake-in-syria-and-turkey" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar">Syrian</span></a> <span lang="ar">actor, director, author and producer</span> , who has a clear imprint on <a href="https://news.sbisiali.com/ar/news/article/celebrities-continue-to-announce-their-donations-to-the-victims-of-the-earthquake-in-syria-and-turkey" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar">Syrian</span></a> <span lang="ar">television works</span> <span lang="ar">. He began his artistic career as an actor in the series Circle of Fire in 1988, then developed his skills to become a television director in the mid-nineties. Hatem Ali presented a large number of feature television films, trilogies and sevens, in addition to social and historical series.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:800/513;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/91500818-d7f3-48a4-bda2-2ca2216784dc.jpg" alt="Hatem Ali behind the scenes of one of his works, Specially"></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%85_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar">Hatem Ali</span></a> <span lang="ar">achieved</span> <span lang="ar">success in the field of theater and wrote three plays. He also participated in more than 23 television productions, the most prominent of which were “The Migration of Hearts to Hearts” in 1990 and “The Palestinian Exile” in 2004.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span lang="ar">Hatem directed a large number of historical series, such as “Salah El-Din Al-Ayoubi” in 2001 and “</span> <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="ar">Omar</span></a> <span lang="ar">” in 2012, and he won many awards as a director from the Cairo Radio and Television Festival.</span> </p><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:729/1200;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/9fe7d9cf-b615-43c9-a048-0a470e176552.jpeg" alt="Maha Al-Masry on the third anniversary of Hatem Ali Specialy’s passing"></figure>