Maher Hassan Al Ghanim

Maher Hassan Al Ghanim

53 (1971-09-30)
Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia

Maher Al Ghanim, the son of Dr. Hassan Al Ghanim, the first ever Saudi cinematic actor in Saudi Arabia and gulf countries. Maher was the founder of Mawahib Band, the first acting band in Qatif. He is working as actor, screen writer, director and producer. He joined a tens of movies festivals in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt. He has now in his carrier many art works in TV and theater.

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The Show Is Still Going On 2012

Within the participation in the ninth session of the Dammam Theater Festival for short performances, director Maher Al-Ghanim presented a show «The show is still continuing», which summoned critic Ahmed Al-Mulla to say «the show is still continuing after rolling the top head towards the bottom of the stage or basement, where the echo of flogging and torture still reverberates in the place», adding «Maher Al-Ghanim, the director before the actor, presented a theatrical show, to say the least that it is crowded and hoarded with symbols and connotations until it almost crowded and collided with each other», and saw that the beginning of the show It was weaker than expected due to the density of signs and elements that decorated the first scene and continued throughout the show, as the shadow game came hesitant instead of being shocking and expressive with a depth that tightens the whole show, not to mention the dilemma of the suspended body that crossed the scene.
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The Stingy Man 2015

A therapeutic map of the issue of stinginess and its negative impact on the family scale in a comic social form. The events of the play discussed social issues within a family consisting of a father with his three children in addition to their uncle (the brother of their deceased mother), where the plot revolved around the children's attempt to lure the sympathy of their miserly authoritarian father in order to extend a helping hand and help with financial disbursement. She revealed the state of miserliness inherent in some members of society, as the father was characterized in the play by extreme stinginess that resulted in extreme poverty for his children, as they lived with cut water and in a room not exceeding two meters, and lacked the most basic rights as he collected clothes for them from containers.
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The Red Flower 2017

Musucal child play.
Maher Hassan Al Ghanim

Maher Hassan Al Ghanim

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