Sami Khayat
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2 December 1943
(aged 79)Sami Khayat | |
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| Born | سامي ألبير خيَّاط 2 December 1943 |
| Died | 26 April 2023 (aged 79) |
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Sami Khayat (Arabic: سامي خياط; 5 December 1943 – 26 April 2023) was a Lebanese francophone[1] theatre comic actor, director, and writer.[2] He is considered[by whom?] one of the pioneers of comic theatre in Lebanon.[3][4]
Khayat was born on 5 December 1943.[5] He began his artistic career with a play he presented in 1960, entitled Molière Hugo and Sofocole. His plays were classified as satirical lyric theater,[6][7] known as the chansonnier.[7] He duetted with Pierre Chamassian from 1973 until 1986, and once again in 2013.[8]
In 2020, he was awarded the French Medal of Arts and Literature with the rank of officer, in recognition of his 60 years of theatrical work in the French and Franco-Lebanese languages. which did not stop even in the midst of the Civil war.[6][9] He was honored on several occasions in Lebanon by The Gebran Tueni Foundation and Fakhruddin Foundation.[6][10]
Sami Khayat died of bone cancer on 26 April 2023, at the age of 79.[11]