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Asia Kamal

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Asia Kamal – an Iraqi actress

Artist: Asia Kamal, was born in Iraq in 1960 She is from a Kurdish family. She was close to the theater and acting since she was young girl. She used to accompany her mother when she was working in the Cinema and Theater Establishment. 

Asia Kamal married for the first time to the director Falah Zaki, and they had two sons, Omar and Abdullah, but they divorced, after which she married the director and writer Basil Al-Shabib. 

She started her artistic career in acting field while she was a student in secondary school and then she played a major role in presenting the play of (Gilgamesh), directed by Sami Abdel Hameed. She studied at Fine Arts Institute, and presented several works inside the institute and with the National Acting Group. 

The technical supervisor: Hamid Soudani, advised her to participate in television works. She presented many roles in Iraqi TV and theater. The major turning point in her career was after her participation in the series “The Traveller" with the artist Kazem El-Saher in 1993 directed by Falah Zaki. 

She presented many works for the cinema such as:

  • To Baghdad                                        2020
  • The secret of Jars                              2014
  • The sad dawn                                    1991
  • Summer Cloud                                  1989
  • Mutawi and Bahiya                          1982
  • Another day                                      1979

 

 

 

For the TV she presented many works too, such as:

  • Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi            2002
  • Tash 11                                               2003
  • Tash 14                                               2003
  • Minawi Pasha (Part 2)                      2004
  • The Sun Door                                     2004 
  • Letters from a Dead Man                2008
  • Al Basha                                             2008
  • declaration of love                           2009                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  • partial calm                                        2009
  • Desert thorns                                    2009
  • Homeland anniversary                      2009
  • top secret                                          2009
  • Return from Ashes                           2010
  • Home sick of a Nation                      2011
  • Abu Tabar                                          2011
  • Naima’s way                                      2012
  • Rabab                                                 2013
  • red ash                                               2015
  • Spyker                                                2018
  • Kind Salwa                                         2021

She has many successful works in theatre, television and cinema which made Asia Kamal an Iraqi star with her great impression.

She is still enriching the Theater, Cinema, and TV with her fine works. 

اسيا كمال - ممثلة عراقية (نخلة عراقية) 

Asia Kamal – an Iraqi actress

Artist: Asia Kamal, was born in Iraq in 1960 She is from a Kurdish family. She was close to the theater and acting since she was young girl. She used to accompany her mother when she was working in the Cinema and Theater Establishment. 

Asia Kamal married for the first time to the director Falah Zaki, and they had two sons, Omar and Abdullah, but they divorced, after which she married the director and writer Basil Al-Shabib. 

She started her artistic career in acting field while she was a student in secondary school and then she played a major role in presenting the play of (Gilgamesh), directed by Sami Abdel Hameed. She studied at Fine Arts Institute, and presented several works inside the institute and with the National Acting Group. 

The technical supervisor: Hamid Soudani, advised her to participate in television works. She presented many roles in Iraqi TV and theater. The major turning point in her career was after her participation in the series “The Traveller" with the artist Kazem El-Saher in 1993 directed by Falah Zaki. 

She presented many works for the cinema such as:

  • To Baghdad                                        2020
  • The secret of Jars                              2014
  • The sad dawn                                    1991
  • Summer Cloud                                  1989
  • Mutawi and Bahiya                          1982
  • Another day                                      1979

 

 

 

For the TV she presented many works too, such as:

  • Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi            2002
  • Tash 11                                               2003
  • Tash 14                                               2003
  • Minawi Pasha (Part 2)                      2004
  • The Sun Door                                     2004 
  • Letters from a Dead Man                2008
  • Al Basha                                             2008
  • declaration of love                           2009                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  • partial calm                                        2009
  • Desert thorns                                    2009
  • Homeland anniversary                      2009
  • top secret                                          2009
  • Return from Ashes                           2010
  • Home sick of a Nation                      2011
  • Abu Tabar                                          2011
  • Naima’s way                                      2012
  • Rabab                                                 2013
  • red ash                                               2015
  • Spyker                                                2018
  • Kind Salwa                                         2021

She has many successful works in theatre, television and cinema which made Asia Kamal an Iraqi star with her great impression.

She is still enriching the Theater, Cinema, and TV with her fine works.