He is Farouq Suleiman 1937-2009

Al-Sir Al Sayed

Farouq Suleiman’s life was linked to the Sudanese television drama project, as he is one of the most important names founding in this project. He is at least the most prolific and most communicative and persistent.
Farouq was born in the year 1937 in the city of Omdurman – Al-Masalama district. He received his primary education in Al-Masalama, then the Coptic School, and secondary school at Farouq School in Khartoum, then he joined the University of… Cairo – Khartoum Branch – Faculty of Law.
He had received studies in television directing in Egypt and then a course in dramatic directing in the Federal Republic of Germany. He had devoted his life, since joining television, which was with the first beginnings of television broadcasting, to one project, which was television drama, so it was not strange.
His name should be associated with the first Sudanese series, which is “Al-Marabi” by Hassan Abdel Majeed, and his name should be associated with the first series whose episodes exceeded seven episodes, which is the series “Money and Love” by Omar Al-Hamidi, and his name should also be associated with the first series whose episodes exceeded twenty episodes, which is the series “The White Brigade” by Mahjoub Brier. And the screenwriter, Amin Mohamed Ahmed, makes Farouq undisputedly occupy the heart of the television drama career. He has the greatest talent, especially in terms of screenplays and plays, and he has the greatest talent in what we can describe as series that have gained great popularity and public demand. It is sufficient here to point out the series The White Brigade and Sikka.
The Danger, The Witness, The Victim, Al-Dhabaya and other series that made viewers flock in front of the television screens, which makes us without hesitation call him (the maker of the television drama audience), and before that the maker of its production methods and one of the most important setters of the rules of the Sudanese television drama scene.
There is no doubt that he greatly influenced those who They came after him.
When we talk about him, we are talking about an amazing sensitivity in choosing the texts and an amazing sensitivity in choosing the actors that revealed, indisputably, an in-depth knowledge of the mood of the Sudanese viewer. Perhaps this sensitivity, as I see it, is what made his work such overwhelming public acceptance.
Who among us has not been moved and interacted with a representation of waiting for execution or… The Money and Love series… Farouq ,who dealt with writers from different generations, is the same one who dealt with actors from different generations.
He was able to combine in his career between Adel Muhammad Khair and Abdel Razeq Jalal in the field of writing, between Fathia Mohamed Ahmed and Hala Agha, and between Awad Siddiq and Al-Rashid Ahmed Issa. In the field of acting, he is Farouk Soliman, the persistent director who paved a difficult path to create the image we want and to tell the stories we love, in our language and our different colors.
The last series directed by the late resident was the series “Al-Dahbaya”.