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Omar Amiralay
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Film & TV
Damascus, Syria
Omar Amiralay (Arabic: عمر أميرالاي) (1944 — 5 February 2011)was a Syrian documentary film director and prominent civil society activist. He is noted for the strong political criticism in his films and played a prominent role in the events of the Damascus Spring of 2000.
Known for
- Arab Camera — Self1987
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Omar
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Syria
- Place of birth
- Damascus
- Place of death
- Damascus
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- La Fémis
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of death
- 2011-02-05
- date of birth
- 1944-10-20
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- عمر أميرلاي
- described by source
- UbuWeb
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