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Sudanese theater director and actor (1949-2021)
Abdul Hakim Al-Taher
(
Arabic
:
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; 1949 ? 1 January 2021) was a Sudanese theater director and actor.
Biography
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Al-Taher was born in Affad,
Northern State
,
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
,
Egypt
. He lost fingers of his left hand while working in a textile factory in 1962. He studied music and theater in the
Sudan University of Science and Technology
and graduated in 1982, then he had a master's degree from the
Cairo University
in 2000, and a PhD from the Sudan University in 2008.
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Known as
Captain Kabo
, he is considered the pioneer of theater of deaf people in Sudan and won the Award for Superior Performance of the Spanish Festival of the Deaf in 2003.
Al-Taher died from
COVID-19
on 1 January 2021, during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan
.
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