Thorns and Roses | الأشواك والورود

In this episode of Yasir Alyasiri's (Masmoo) Podcast, Yasir reflects on the incredible success of the music video "Sahi Lahum" for the legendary artist Rashid Al Majid. While the video elevated Yasir’s status as a director, it also attracted some unwarranted criticism, which he discusses in depth. Yasir shares how this experience influenced his decision to work only with top-tier artists, believing that stardom was the key to advancing his career.

However, a twist of fate led Yasir to a project he initially overlooked: the music video for "Salam Al Ishq" by the artist Al Wasmi. What started as a seemingly insignificant opportunity turned into a major success, propelling Al Wasmi to stardom and introducing Yasir to media personality Nasser Al Jahwari.

Yasir also recounts a challenging experience in Syria, where he faced exploitation by certain individuals. Despite the difficulties, one person stepped up to help, reminding Yasir that even among thorns, there are roses—kind-hearted individuals who make a difference.

Join Yasir as he explores the lessons learned from these pivotal moments in his career, from the highs of working with industry giants to the unexpected opportunities that shaped his journey.

في هذه الحلقة من بودكاست ياسر الياسري (مسموع)، يتأمل ياسر في النجاح الكبير الذي حققه فيديو كليب "صاحي لهم" للفنان الأسطوري راشد الماجد. على الرغم من أن الفيديو رفع من مكانة ياسر كمخرج، إلا أنه تعرض لبعض الانتقادات التي يعتبرها غير مبررة. يشارك ياسر كيف أثرت هذه التجربة على قراره بالعمل فقط مع الفنانين الكبار، معتقدًا أن النجومية هي المفتاح لتقدم مسيرته.

لكن، وبمحض الصدفة، قاده القدر إلى مشروع كان قد أهمله في البداية: فيديو كليب "سلام العشق" للفنان الوسمي. ما بدأ كفرصة تبدو غير مهمة، تحول إلى نجاح كبير أطلق الوسمي إلى عالم النجومية، وقدمه إلى الإعلامي ناصر الجهوري.

يستعرض ياسر أيضًا تجربة صعبة واجهها في سوريا، حيث تعرض للاستغلال من قبل بعض الأفراد. ورغم الصعوبات، ظهر شخص قدم له المساعدة، ليذكره بأنه حتى بين الأشواك، هناك ورود—أشخاص طيبون يمكنهم أن يحدثوا فرقًا.

انضموا إلى ياسر وهو يستكشف الدروس المستفادة من هذه اللحظات الحاسمة في مسيرته، من القمم التي حققها بالعمل مع عمالقة الصناعة إلى الفرص غير المتوقعة التي شكلت مسيرته.

Transcript

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[Music]

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When you go up quickly, you will go down quickly, and if you get too high, all

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the obstacles will befall you, sir. A song was left on the desk for two weeks. I don't want to listen to it, and I turned out to be a mistake. What happened to you, O

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octopus? The oud and filming in Syria is a decision that you have made forever. In the hotbed of evil and deception. A little goodness

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is enough for these topics and more yet. We will cover it in the sixth episode of the Audible Podcast with me,

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Yasser Al-Yasiri. In the previous episode, I discussed the topic

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of filming a video clip by the artist Rashid Al-Majed, entitled “Shout to them in Beirut.” At the end of

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the episode, we learned that Hani had returned to Dubai. I had started editing with the editor, Ayham Al-Kuntar, and we wanted to

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finish the clip and almost our product within a week. As I know, editing is considered a short period of time, and

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I remember a visit to the editing by the artist Rashid Al-Majed, the artist Ahmed Al-Harami, the artist Walid

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Al-Shami, and the artist Meshal Al-Arouj. They came and saw the clip and expressed their great admiration for it, very, very,

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very, and the artist Rashid Al-Majed asked me for an immediate copy, which he would take with him because he wanted

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people to narrate it again, and I agreed. This thing went on and the song was broadcast on television and was a

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very, very impressive success, because as I said before, any work presented by the artist Rashid Al Majed is

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necessarily a successful work, and it will certainly take first place and will take the focus of all people. Of course, the idea

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of ​​the clip was very surreal, very new symbolism even for an artist. Like Rashid Al Majed, he delves into

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the depths of an idea with such depth, and of course this thing came first from the lyrics of the song that contained

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these factors, in addition to the idea that was created by the great artist Mahmoud

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Abu Al Abbas, and I of course added to it so that it would be suitable for filming a video clip. Check out the video

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clip as I said. Ako was somewhere between a huge admirer and critics. The criticism in general was that

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they felt that the clip was similar to other clips, whether by Rashed Al Majed, and this is of course in reference to the scene where

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Labsan and Labsan are seen. This means the singing clips that the singer performs during the video clip. For

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them, they use the slow motion technique in singing, which I explained. In the previous episode, how

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can we technically fix it? This was, for them, a similarity. This is an idea, frankly, that I suffer from to

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this day. When the Arab public always sees Arab work in particular, it is as if they are seeing it only in order to

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criticize and point out the mistakes made or compare it to something similar in the world or even in the

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Arab world. The important thing is that this work is taken from any other work, and this is an idea that is rooted in culture, and

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God wants to renew it greatly. I am not speaking because I have been criticized, for example, in this clip, but

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I am speaking in general from what I see. I mean, it is unfair for me to say any romantic story in which there is

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a person who loves alone. I would compare it to everything. Romantic films, or I compare, for example, heist films,

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in some of them, this is of course not true, because the ideas are important in the way they are dealt with in the genres or

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categories in films, video clips, or in all artistic works. They are classified under a specific section

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or under a specific category. I mean, just like when you go to specialized libraries and receive books in the novels category, they are

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classified under a specific category. For children, the cooking category and the various categories that you find in the library. The same thing signifies

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artistic works that these fall under a specific category. Romantic works, for example, will discuss

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almost the same topics, but with a different presentation and in a different style. They may have a great similarity to

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other films, and this is not wrong, on the contrary, it is the way of approach and the message that You present it through this

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film, and even sometimes the difference may be only in the characters, meaning in the human impact, or in the depth of

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the story itself and its impact on the characters within the work. The issue is that the categories are close.

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This does not mean that one is staying away from another, or one is stealing from another, meaning one of the important directors,

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for example, the American director Quentin. Tarantino always says my work is a collection of

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scenes from other films. There is not a single person in America who came out and said that Tarantino was a thief, for example, or

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someone else's trumpet. No, it is a collection of riches that the director is influenced by and pours or combines them into a specific work that he proposed,

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and there may be slight differences in his idea between it and the other works that he created. He is influenced

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by it. For example, you have directors like Martin Scorsese. The same thing has the influences of directors from

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Europe, especially Italian directors, and he always presents similar works, but with his approach,

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his understanding, and his own way, I hope that we will always be able to displace this critical aspect. I know it is difficult because,

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originally, Arab cinema came after Western cinema and adaptations. This is what

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the competitors of these films have always taken advantage of, by presenting it as a weakness in the films themselves, so it has become a culture

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and it is very difficult for it to change, but I mean, I hope that with the increase in production, this topic will change. We return

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to the clip, and we said that between a critic and a fan of the clip, it gained very important success, and I

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continued to communicate for a period of time almost in a regular manner. My day, the artist Rashid Al Majed is on the phone, telling me his opinions and telling

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people what to say, and of course he tells the people he likes and their opinions. I mean, it was good enough for them

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to tell me the next evening, but I now have a problem that is completely different from all of this, which is me.

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Only about a year ago, I came back from... Turkey with two films by artist Basil Aziz, their image in the style of cinema.

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I was even trying to prove myself to those around me who were around the artist that I was a capable director

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and could do this type of work within one year. It happened that I became a superstar in

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At that time, and still, the artist Rashid Al Majed means that I saw those around me

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and my circle of artists that I knew at a lower level than those I was at, so for a period of time

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I began to aspire to do something that was at the level of Rashid Al Majed or close to God, and what should

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be known is that he is always the subject of fame and spread. Like a pyramid, it means that you find a large base

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with a very large quantity of artists, for example, and little by little, as you reach the top, you will find that

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the base gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller, but you will find very few people at the top, so you will even

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work, and only those at the top will determine and regulate your options in a way. It is very big, so for a while

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I aspired to do works, but in the value of the artist Rashid Al Majed, or even the artist

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Rashid Al Majed himself, and the song was supposed to be prepared. It was composed by the artist Wali

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Al Shami. Then he opened a channel and its people, which is a part of MBC, and who was in charge. Almost directly

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from her , the evil of the artist Rashid Al Majed, so he said he is the channel's greeting, and this project

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was postponed, and for a period of time I refused all the offers that came to me because I felt that they were less than what I

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had presented, and oh artist Rashid Al Majed, and during that period I used to see the name only as Amanah, which means that I had not

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matured enough. I say no, it is possible, regardless of the name, I can come up with a similar idea

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or a better idea than the one I made with the artist Rashid Al Majed, but I think at that time I was taken

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by the name, as they say, and I started thinking from a narrow perspective. At that time, the production director

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who was working with him, Professor Ana Al Sheikhani, was filming. A program called The Millionaire's Poet in Abu Dhabi.

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He works as a production manager. There, he met the program's creator, Mr. Nasser Al-Jahouri,

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a senior journalist from Abu Dhabi on the Abu Dhabi TV channel. He was the presenter of the Millionaire's Poet program. Nasser

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Al-Jahouri, apart from the fact that he was a capable journalist, decided at that time that he would enter into... The world of art, in the world of

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business management and discovering artists. At that time, he was dealing with the artist Al-Wasmi, and they were

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after them in the beginnings, and the artist Al-Wasmi. I used to know him, I used to see him singing shalat shalat, which were like

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Iraqi mawwals, but borrowed more from the Emirati heritage, and they were very popular at that time, and

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to this day, they have a very wide audience, and he was the artist. Al-Wasmi comes to record songs with us in the studio,

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and I see, I mean, between bookings, I see him coming out, so I am in that period in which I said

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that I only wanted to deal with stars at the level of Rashid Al-Majed or even higher. Why not in

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that period, the same period in which Nasser Al-Jahouri’s media collaboration with Abu began? Dhabi and the artist

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Al-Wasmi are in a partnership in that they do business together, with Nasser Al-Jahouri being the producer, supervisor

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of the work, and business manager of the artist Al-Wasmi. I remember that Mr. Enad Sheikhan came to the office of

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Watani Sir, with Al-Wasmi’s song “Peace of Love” written on it, so he came in front of me at the office. Nasser

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Al-Jahouri, the program announcer, said to me, “What is the millionaire’s poet now?” It happened with me, Al-Wasmi, and they have this song

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that they want to film. I mean, without any hesitation. I mean, I said no, frankly. I mean, I told him, “No, no, no.”

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Where am I now? I want to do it, and I want to do it. I’m waiting for so-and-so and so-and-so promised me that I am planning

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on the plan. I mean, I entered into this situation with us. A sheikh was smart because he He said to me, “Okay, okay.” The important thing is that you

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leave this CD in your possession. I left the CD and went to the office and the CD was on top of

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the books and things that were on the desk. I mean, the supplies and stationery that were on

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the desk were on top of the sign, Salam Al-Ashk. I was trying to come up with ideas. I would like to do this and that. I want to do

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projects. Another parallel to the one I made with Rashid Al Majed, and after two weeks of that, I am

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very sure that my decision is correct. At night, I remember until maybe two, like this, meaning the dawn is a quarter of the dawn

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in the first place. I mean, I used to stay up. I mean, before I stayed up, I mean, it is the lives of artists. I mean, it is upside down. I mean, it becomes

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the opposite. I have to have my life keep up with them. It’s normal. An artist calls me at 3 in the morning and says to me,

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“Where are you? You are stopping by the studio. This is very normal. I mean, my life has become similar to the life of artists,

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even of course when I am in the middle of the fray and in the middle of these productions, which means I am out of boredom and I turned to a hobby of things.

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I ignored the song and said, ‘Let me listen to the song.’ I mean, I have now preferred to listen to the tag, so I don’t listen.” The work

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I was going to do, I played the song. By God, the music at the beginning is nice, and the music does not

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indicate that it is a shillat. With all due respect to the shillats, I am not disparaging the shalats, but at that time my

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attitude was that I did not want to do this thing, and I know that the Wasmi artist is the singer of the shalats. I mean, I heard

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the song, the beginning of which is very nice. Then Al-Wasmi sang “No, this is a song,” and the song was the most wonderful

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of course. It was the song composed by the artist Ahmed Al-Harami, and it became a discovery of

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Al-Wasmi’s very distinctive energies and raw material. So I heard the song. No, the song is something, I mean, very wonderful, one of the few songs

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that I narrated earlier. There are songs that you hear and know that this is the song. It

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meant success or success, in the colloquial expression, so I heard the song and I said to him, “By God, this is

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the song for me.” I mean, if I lost it, this would be stupidity on my part. And I realized that the

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same way I was going to make my way was that if I wanted to maintain a certain place, I would have to

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make this thing clear. Through my energy, not through the name of the artist I deal with, and at the time,

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of course, Al-Wasmi was considered an artist, meaning new to the scene, so I was disappointed by Al-Sheikhani’s stubbornness and I told him

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I tell you, this song is great. He told me, of course, I know it is very beautiful, so

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I left it in front of you on the desk and I was waiting. I said, “Surely, Yasser at one moment will hear

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the song, and I was sure you would change your decision. So, two days after it, the journalist Nasser Al-Jahouri,

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who later became a friend, came to me.” But you are almost what I mean, and the first time I see him

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and the personality of the artist and media personality, Nasser Al-Jahouri, whom they knew, of course, is a very special personality.

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He is clever, his answers are always ready, he criticizes in a playful way, he always tries to provoke

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the interviewer until he comes out with the best. The first time we sat down, of course, in his way that I later

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learned, he started to provoke me with a joke, I mean, talk about a song. The artist Rashid Majed shouted to them, “Why is

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this, why is that, and I don’t know what?” I mean, he came to me, and I had the impression that it was from Rashid

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Majed. I was going to make this clip, so the verse was reversed. I replied, “Now I am proving the same as Al-Nasser Al-Jahouri.” It was

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a smart style, frankness on his part, and we heard the song. I mean, who is from the first base?

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I mean, I felt that this person would become my friend because we share similar interests in the way of thinking,

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and he was very reconciled with the idea that this clip is a rediscovery of the seminal artist

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and a complete change in his complexion, so we agreed on this basis and I started to attend the clip, but

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the financial capabilities were limited, given that it is almost a personal production for the artist. Al-Wasmi did not have

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that great return, so it was definitely not comparable to the budgets of the works that I settled, I mean, recently,

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but it is close to that. I used this element and said that I must be smart in reducing

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the size of the things that I am adjusting, and not adopting the method that I always adopt, which is that it is

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live drama, I adjust the shots. More aesthetically pleasing, and I come to terms with the idea that I want to film

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one day, so I have to think about the idea or the story that I am going to make, not everything. I mean, I will go out of the ordinary with it

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and make hobby shots and then I will not be able to do them, so there will be a weakness in the clip, so I sat down and settled on

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the idea, because the idea was in a simplified way that I adopted the main character, which is The singer

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, the artist Al-Wasmi, is a poet, and he is actually, by the way, the artist Al-Wasmi is a poet in the first place, meaning

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he is a poet, and he writes words and discovers that everything he wrote becomes true, so he conveys later, in a stage

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almost half the length, that he means between reality and imagination, he does not know that this thing is something that exists

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or its image does not exist. In a very symbolic way, I photographed it in a place called the Red Island in the Emirate of Ras

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Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates, and this island has a rumor, meaning it is popular. Let us

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say that it is haunted by jinn, meaning they were a motivating factor for me to go and see where I was going to film.

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I made a very strange preview. I mean, I thought I was the assistant director. The houses are an area,

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meaning a neighborhood of more than one neighborhood, meaning several neighborhoods that are completely deserted, so you enter the houses and enter the schools

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in the air, deserted and deserted, with nothing in them, and it is certain that with the words that it is haunted, I mean, it was

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very specific and distinct. I was not afraid of honesty, because, as I said in previous episodes, I have another character

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that appears. Never, I mean, get into, in, in the midst of a certain job, someone I don't know, frankly, different despair, Yasser,

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all the things he's afraid of, he's not afraid of, all the things he has a phobia of, he doesn't have

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a phobia of, it's a strange thing, I mean, Glory be to God, so that character that I don't know, and that's me, went through

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this particular thing. It's normal. Very much, without any fear, we filmed over the course of one day, and I used the element

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of dancing, and it was dancing in gypsy clothes and with the aesthetics of his picture and his picture with the director of photography, the friend

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and beloved, Ahmed Kardos, from Egypt, who brought me together with him, and we cooperated very much in the upcoming episodes,

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so I will mention them. I mean, he made the clip, and the clip actually came out, of course. I had a little trouble

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trying to convince Al-Wasmi to do certain things that were new to him, and he considered it to be him. I mean, this is not part of his dress, but

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with cooperation between me and the journalist Nasser Al-Jahouri, we were able to convince him, and the dog came out, and the dog became his condition.

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I mean, he went down. I remember. I mean, let’s say, for example, it came down today, the second day. I was

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almost exercising with the gym. Four of those present, whose tune is Salam Al-Ishq, which is Al-Wasmi’s song, was a

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very hit song that broke the world and opened a way for Al-Wasmi to be a distinguished artist, and it also opened the way

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for Nasser Al-Jahouri. Of course, in the next episodes, there will be adventures and things with him. I mean, it will

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please the listeners. I mean, the clip was made and the clip was very successful. Praise be to God. God, and then in the same period, I received

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an offer from Rotana to film a video clip for the great and esteemed artist, Ebadi Al-Jawwar. The Octopus of the Oud

0:17:36.919,0:17:43.559
was nicknamed “The Octopus of the Oud” by Asif Al-Kharafi, on the God of Oud. During that period, Rotana had

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become a magnet for great artists such as Muhammad Abdo Abu Bakr Salem Abbad Al-Jawhar, and every

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concert was signed. With an artist, they were throwing a very huge party and inviting all the singers and all the celebrities

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and artists, meaning a party to celebrate and celebrate this artist, and the great artist, Abbad

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Al-Jawhar, was one of them. A production manager from Rotana, Mr. Muhannad Sharaf, spoke to me

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and told me that he would do this work. I had previously dealt with Rotana with two works. And the artist Abdel

0:18:16.799,0:18:22.480
Moneim Al-Amri and the artist Mohamed Al-Bakry, I mean, there was no estrangement between me and them, such as dealing with

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a company, but the show this time for me, of course, the artist Abbad Al-Jawhar means that it falls under

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the things that I see, right, and I must settle it now after the clip of the artist Rashid Al-Majed.

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The euphoria that I got from the success of the song Salam Al-Eshq by the artist Al-Wasmi. I heard the song. I heard it.

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I had an idea for her. We were sitting in the office in Dubai, and I and the production manager, Jaana Al-Sheikhani, said to me, “

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What do you think about filming this work in Syria? Frankly, I haven’t filmed it in Syria before, but I’m going to do

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it because everyone knows yet.” During the war period in 2003, most of the Iraqis went to Syria, and part of

0:19:01.440,0:19:06.840
my family and relatives were already in Syria, so I used to go to my family’s house to see my mother,

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between Syria and Dubai. I mean, I had knowledge of Syria. I would go and come, but I did not have a photographer there.

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I do not know Syria. It is famous for soap operas. Of course, I did not see works. I am a hobby of video clips filmed

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in Syria, except for simple experiments, that is, from only one specific director, so I was skeptical, but the stubbornness of

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Sheikhani told me that he was opening a new company in Sou and it would be the outlet for the work, and I would

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be under the security of this company. I mean, I liked the idea and I said why not, and I told him. Muhannad

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honored me from his routine and I said to him and he said, “Oh, excellent.” We are currently opening the Four

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Seasons Hotel in Damascus, and the artist Abbad Al-Jawhar is already going to be there. I said, “All is well.” It

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’s okay, if it’s Syria, then I traveled to Syria, and with us, the two sheikhs were an employee at IRT, so

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he can’t travel. I was happy. And the assistant did not agree. We went to Syria, and I went to Syria, of course, Syria, as

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I said. I mean, my family is sitting in my family’s house, so it is not something strange for me. I mean, we were happy to see the company.

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I met the guys who work with him and I started to explain to them. I started to tell them what I should do. I felt big differences,

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to be honest, between the football club in Dubai, in Beirut, and in Turkey. In Syria, they had a little lack of knowledge

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about video clips or even advertisements. The terminology used was always in

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Arabic, and the terminology I used was not philosophized in English. It focused on my studies and

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on my interests. I mean, until now, most countries’ technical terms are always

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English terms, so the way to deal with them was a little difficult. As for me, in order to understand the assistant director,

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what do I want in order to understand the production designer or the art director? I am lost, knowing that in

0:20:54.520,0:20:59.880
this clip, I cooperated with the art director. He became a friend of mine, and he is a person who means more than great and more

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than wonderful. His name is Imad, so I started preparing, which means the form of Ali, for the integrity of this preparation. Because it means

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effort in order to convey the idea. I wouldn’t say weakness, but maybe four times more than if I filmed it in

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another place, and that means they had the idea of ​​a video clip

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filming Kan. Ako clips before they appeared on Madi, I remember their names, but they appeared on channels, meaning they were considered

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from the side, not everything. Okay, so it was. Here is their idea for video clips. I am coming and

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filming this clip with a movie camera. I had a little trouble connecting these bridges

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between the two ideas and between the two schools. They meant the football, oh, good football. Most of them are young people

0:21:43.559,0:21:50.720
and Zain, and most of them are from the company that Mr. Enad Sheikhani has, so I want to attend according to the rules, and she chose.

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The model and one of the strange things was that the equipment was not available in Syria, so we had to

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rent the equipment from Beirut, and they, the crew and the equipment, came from Beirut to Syria, finished

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filming and returned to Beirut, so it was a bit of a worrying issue for me, considering the travel

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and distance, and since the dog was going to get me exhausted and there was no money. They stay in the hotel

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for the night, no, they come from Beirut and arrive and then come back a second time, so it seems to me that

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the issue is a concern to be honest, and at a time I wanted to deal with it. Almost always, every video clip or every

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work means I try to cooperate with a new director of photography, which means I feel that there will be a certain renewal. I even

0:22:33.720,0:22:39.159
challenge him . Myself more and every director of photography, I want to discover something new. I want to deliver something

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new to him. This means almost a method that I have used to this day, and most of my work is different. Between

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a director of photography and a director of photography, between work and work. I mean, I wanted to deal with the director of photography.

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He meant a shining star in the field. Then he was Ziad Khoury and I spoke to him and the man was fine and he was coming to Syria

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and we wanted to come. I remember only a day ago, meaning a very short period of time, that when we did the previews

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and put in the lighting, it would come completely and we would use what we used. It was a bit of a

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strange topic for him, to be honest, and I went two days before that and met with you, the great, great artist,

0:23:18.240,0:23:25.600
Abbad. Al-Jawhar, I swear to God, what does it mean? What can I explain to Ali? Ali Abbad Al-Jawhar Abbad Al-Jawhar is a

0:23:25.600,0:23:32.960
respectable, quiet person and an artist beyond what anyone can imagine, and his voice, even when

0:23:32.960,0:23:41.279
he speaks, is very light, so you feel a lot of artistic energy, but you like to sit with him, and I remember

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I told him about the clothes, and he told me that... I was not going to go out and wear a dress, a ghutra, and a headband, meaning a dishdasha,

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a ghutra, and a headband. So I told him, “No, we will dress like this, like a suit, and I don’t know what

0:23:55.120,0:24:01.120
the man is.” He did not mind at all, and we went and bought clothes and came. I was very excited to deal with him, but

0:24:01.120,0:24:06.760
at the same time, I was exhausted and tired from the atmosphere that had become of preparation. I mean, there have been problems, and there have been

0:24:06.760,0:24:13.240
interactions, and there has been someone cheating on someone, and someone is talking about someone, and I'm not used to these things,

0:24:13.240,0:24:19.080
and this is the first time I'm seeing them. To be honest, I mean, the biggest problem is that the person who

0:24:19.080,0:24:25.000
invited me to this country is not there, and it's true that I'm going to his company, but he himself is not there, so I mean

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the phone issue . He said there is no WhatsApp and head to talk and say what I have

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You have to talk and you have to listen, and I am telling something, and of course employees are talking about something, so it was a journey that

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I do not wish to repeat, to be honest, and I do not wish it to happen to anyone, and this is still at the beginning after what is

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coming, I mean, it is better than God, so we started to finish, we wanted to film the clip, and it

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was difficult to be honest, and I remember it was filming with me alone. One of my relatives, he is my beloved and my brother,

0:24:55.760,0:24:59.279
Captain Pilot Ashraf Al-Yasiri, of course, when

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this story was going on, I mean, in the beginning of 2007, so we started filming and filming, it was tiring

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and exhausting with the crew of Anna Ordi, I was not comfortable, and, honestly, I mean no longer, of course, there were

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members of the crew whom I loved very much. I benefited from their creativity and the technical crew, Ordi, was coming

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from Beirut, and the director of photography, Ziad Khoury, did his job wonderfully, so we saved the dog after approximately

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26-27 continuous hours. I mean, we started in the morning, and the morning came to us in a place where we had to spend the night.

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I mean, to be honest, I don’t want to, I don’t want to remember my hands to talk to, I mean. I remembered what

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I had, because what was going to happen was that the raw material that we filmed had to be taken by the crew,

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and one day they would return to Beirut for development or development, because I

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was supposed to go to Lebanon to settle the talc, and then again, it would be to convert what we had into digital material that we could

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sleep on, so I would go by plane and with the raw material.

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Al - Najtaf ,

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when he passes through the airport with

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the The loader who is

0:26:44.919,0:26:52.679
responsible for the raw materials told me that he is so-and-so whose name I don't want to know. I mean, he took all the raw materials.

0:26:52.679,0:26:58.760
I said to him, yes, of course, so-and-so and we were in the staff. So I said to him, "What does he mean? He took the raw materials." He

0:26:58.760,0:27:04.880
told me to take the raw materials. He said, "He has money. I don't know how much money." I told him, are you telling the truth

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or not? I mean, this one is considered close and almost my neighborhood is from Dubai, so I was shocked to even

0:27:11.320,0:27:20.120
mention Ashraf. He was shocked and worried about me, so I kept telling him that the tails of the Chrome Beirut would not respond to them and their right. We said after 28

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hours of filming and they were Urdu coming from Beirut in the morning and he said to you, that’s it, live your life and

0:27:24.919,0:27:30.840
take care of yourself. These are your problems, and I don't know what they are, and they are gone now. The raw material is not gone, and oh, the raw one is still

0:27:30.840,0:27:38.240
in Syria, and one of them did not take it. God knows where it means. The previous thing is a little bit strange. The last thing he replied, so I said

0:27:38.240,0:27:45.039
to him, "I heard such and such. Is this true?" He said to me, "It is true." I mean, all rudeness. So I said to him, "What does

0:27:45.039,0:27:52.200
it mean?" It is true that he said to me, yes, I have a bill for 400 liras for gasoline money. 400 liras, I mean, I don’t remember

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what it was, to be honest at the time, but it means an amount that does not exceed 30 dollars, maybe less, and I told him, “You are

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on the mode for 400, I settled all of this,” and he was very rude in his manner, and it was not as if I knew him and he worked and whoever

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It was a long time ago and he came from Dubai in the first place. I mean, I didn't want to make the topic more confidential because it means that a lot of

0:28:09.679,0:28:14.840
hands hurt me, as they say. The raw clip that I filmed, like the clip of Ebbad Al-Jawhar

0:28:14.840,0:28:22.440
and Rotana, is not in the hands of this person. I mean, the most correct and ideal thing is to finish

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these topics and take the raw material and see what happens. Then, of course, this story spread among

0:28:26.880,0:28:30.960
the staff. I mean, they all knew what had happened. They came. Some of them apologized and said that

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this is what represents us, and some of them remained silent. I mean, we were happy that Ashraf and I met him in the

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Marja area in Syria. It was normal and it was not like he had smoke coming out of his hand. And for 400 liras, I gave 400 liras

0:28:44.080,0:28:49.760
to Atan. Raw means frankness with people, sometimes in the coming episodes. Unfortunately, similar things

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have happened. Because with photography, you are exposed to a mosaic and a mosaic of people

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with different character, different intentions, and different ambitions. It is bound to produce bad results from time

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to time, and it becomes, I mean, with photography, so the materials remained with me and me. I have a plane ticket and I cannot take

0:29:11.080,0:29:17.360
this flight from Syria to Beirut, so I have to take it by land, so I sat dizzy at home. What am I going to do?

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What can I do? On the same day, I get a call from another person from the group. He told me that

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before I explained in a previous episode that we record cinema on something called basic video.

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Until we see him, then she is recorded on the BHS tape. Suddenly, without any warning, he said, “I have this

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BHS tape, and I will produce the clip and post it. If you come, give me $1,000.” I said to him, “

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Nice, why?” What is the logic behind the matter? He said to me, “But that’s what I mean.” He still wants

0:29:46.679,0:29:52.840
to listen. I mean, someone might be surprised by what I'm saying, but I mean, this is the truth, and I'm saying it now,

0:29:52.840,0:29:59.080
and my goal is clear. I didn't say the names, so certainly my goal is not to defame, I mean, but my goal

0:29:59.080,0:30:07.519
is that no one else gets into these problems, because it really affected me psychologically and negatively in a big way, so if I go to

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this person and I'm sorry. 1000 dollars, which was originally without any reason or justification, and I took

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the VHS from the tapes, which are video tapes, and came back. It means a dream on your mind. I mean, to be

0:30:19.399,0:30:26.159
honest, it means all the things that happened. I mean, I saw a phone the second day in the morning. A driver from the

0:30:26.159,0:30:31.559
truck drivers who used to take pictures called me and said to me. I knew what happened to you from so-and-so

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and so-and-so. I want to come to you. He said to me, “Where are you?” I told him, “We were living in the area of ​​the Dummar Project.” He actually

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came, less than an hour later, and I went out to the door. I didn’t know what he wanted. I mean, he told me, “See, I know you from”

0:30:45.320,0:30:52.840
Another country, and I want to convey to you that what I saw in Syria does not represent all Syrians and does not represent Syria

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, and that there are beautiful people and there are not beautiful people. Of course, it is a compliment. I said, “I know,” but to

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be honest, he said to me, “I am in order to make up for all this that happened to you. Please, I beg you to give me peace of mind

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that I will take him to Beirut.” Outside and give him the place you want, and you go and travel and settle

0:31:12.039,0:31:18.679
what you want to settle, which is the forging, and I come back and hope from you that you will not give me a

0:31:18.679,0:31:25.519
penny in return, so I said to him, by God, to be honest, I mean the first thing, of course, is why I didn’t settle with anyone.

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This is very important because this person is He takes the dogs and takes them to Beirut and comes back, but he is from Syria,

0:31:33.559,0:31:37.639
and he knows the places. I mean, whoever I tell him this guy knows how he will deal with him, and he knows all

0:31:37.639,0:31:43.440
the things. So I was reassured, so I went to him because I have trust in him, because logically,

0:31:43.440,0:31:49.240
I should not have emotional trust over what happened to him. Within two days, but I don't know, Glory be to God. I mean,

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I felt that I would trust this person. So he took the raw material and bid him farewell and called me and told me that he had arrived and I went.

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I traveled to Beirut and went to straighten the miter and I remember

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with the telescope the Asian Cup 2007. I was a little colored and I came back a little to see the game a little colored. I mean,

0:32:13.639,0:32:20.120
it was a very strange situation and I finished coloring. I went back to Damascus

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and the same driver came to me and came home sitting in the garden. We had a nice garden in the house like that,

0:32:26.399,0:32:33.880
so we sat for tea and I begged him to take money. He didn’t take money and look at the other thing that I am

0:32:33.880,0:32:41.399
now. I mean, it will be almost 18 or 19 years since this topic. I remember it and I remember it as this

0:32:41.399,0:32:49.360
aspect. The good that exists in the midst of things that may not be good is always important because it means

0:32:49.360,0:32:56.880
we deal with our origin, which we feel is right, because the impact can be greater in a hobby than we can imagine.

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So I finished the dog and came back at night. I remember the same day and went to see a play at night, and we,

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Oreidi, won over Korea. Iraq won over Korea. In the Asian Cup, it was an important match. It was

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a play, I don’t remember the name, but it included the artist Abdul Rahman Al-Murshedy and the artist Majid Yassin,

0:33:15.240,0:33:22.519
of course, who did not memorize the titles. The play ended with Mutun Sin and we laughed, and then in the same play,

0:33:22.519,0:33:28.159
Hossam Al-Rassam’s song was played at the time. It was an Iraqi money hitter, Hello, Your Honor. It was a

0:33:28.159,0:33:35.080
nice atmosphere, I mean, Iraqis. They were all gathered in a place outside of Iraq and affected by Iraq’s victory, so they were

0:33:35.080,0:33:44.960
beautiful feelings that ended the bad journey that happened to me while filming in Syria, so I returned to Dubai and produced the work,

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and the work came out at the end of the previous episode. I told you that they were the artists who came to me. The artist

0:33:51.840,0:33:57.799
Rashid Al-Majed, the artist Ahmed Al-Harmi, the artist Walid Al-Shami, the artist and composer Mishal Al-Arouj

0:33:57.799,0:34:04.360
were It is present in the editing. I returned to Dubai. The clip was always produced by the money of the great artist, Abbad

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Al-Johar. Vision. A call from a producer named Faisal Issa. Faisal Issa’s teacher. A company called Smile.

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It was working on phone rings, meaning communications. He told me that I am currently producing for the artist

0:34:19.320,0:34:28.639
Mishaal Al-Arouj, and I have a song that I want you to hear, and I will come to Dubai with Mishaal. And we sit with you. In

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the next episode, I will talk specifically about the behind-the-scenes of this work, because it is a very beautiful behind-the-scenes with challenges.

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God willing, I mean, you will like it. Of course, I hope that what we said in the episode will have lessons

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learned for all listeners. Thank you very much.