Hussein Shariffe

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Hussein Shariffe (حسين شريف) (7 July 1934 – 21 January 2005, Omdurman, Sudan) was a Sudanese filmmaker, painter, poet and university lecturer at the University of Khartoum. After years of schooling in Khartoum and in Alexandria, Egypt, he studied modern history and fine arts in England, where he had his first exhibition in London's Gallery One in 1957. Back in Sudan in the 1970s, he worked both at the Ministry of Culture and at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum. In 1973 he began a second artistic career as filmmaker, producing several documentary films and cinematographic essay…

  • Directing
  • Born 7 July 1934
  • Died 21 January 2005 (age 70)
  • Omdurman, Sudan
  • 5 credits

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