Jawad Al Shakarchi

Jawad Al Shakarchi is an Iraqi actor and dramatist.He has participated in more than 60 Arab and international theatre festivals, and received dozens of awards, including that of Best Actor in Cairo's Theatre Festival 1989, a medal of honour from the Carthage Theatre Festival in Tunisia 1995 and many more.He started his theatre career at 16; when he joined the troupe of Iraqi-Soviet Friendship Society in 1966.

Al-Shakarchi witnessed the Iraqi artistic renaissance in the late 1960s and worked with pioneers such as Yousif Al Ani, who took the Iraqi theatre from brash imitations of international classics to performing original Iraqi plays.

When asked about how he felt when former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was removed from office, he quotes:"I am not a Saddam fan, but at the same time I am totally against changing the government of my country through a foreign invasion."

External links

* [http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=14708 Jawad Interview] at Al Jazeera English
* [http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=7913 Iraqi Actor hopes for Theatre Revival]
* [http://albeitiraqi.com/culture_body.htm Cultural Baghdad]