KHALED EL SHEIKH: BETWEEN THE THORNS OF ART AND POLITICS
Genre
Documentary
Running time
42 minutes
Year
2022
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Saudi Arabia
Director
Jamal Kutbi
Bio
Producer
Maysam Almunaie, Saleh Basalamah
Cast
Khaled Al-Sheikh, Samawa Alshaikh
Scriptwriter
Jamal Kutbi
Bahraini singer Khaled Al-Sheikh’s name is synonymous with musical innovation, which has brought him numerous awards but also divided his audience. This film traces his creative and public journey, from his beginnings as a student in Kuwait University. In this film, we follow Khaled Al-Sheikh’s journey from Kuwait, where he started out studying economics and political sciences, to the Conservatory in Egypt after he dropped out to study music, to his years in the spotlight.
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