Professor Al-Sir Kaddour passed away in the Arab Republic of Egypt, according to what Kush News reported, according to the testimony of journalist Fatima Al-Sadiq at the first hour of Thursday morning.
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Al-Sir Kaddour is a Sudanese multi-talented lyric poet. He is also a composer of lyric poems, a praiser of religious songs and a TV presenter. He is also a journalist who has worked in the fields of politics, arts, variety and sports. He has written documentaries on the art of singing and singers in Sudan. He is considered one of the second generation pioneers of the Sudanese musical bag art.
Birth and upbringing
Al-Sir Ahmed Kaddour was born approximately in the year 1934, in the village of Al-Jarabab, Ambori District, south of the city of Damer, the capital of the current River Nile State (formerly the Northern District) in Sudan.
Kaddour grew up in a large artistic environment consisting of actors, poets and singers known to the residents of the city of Damer and its suburbs and famous for its great poets and writers, such as the poet Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majzoub and the literary scholar Abdullah al-Tayyib. His father, Ahmed Kaddour, was a praiser, reciting religious chant and poems in praise of the Messenger (PBUH), and he was the region’s singer in the thirties of the last century, and his grandfather on his mother’s side was a poet, and the same was true of his grandfather on the side of his father and his twin aunts, Umm al-Hasan and Umm al-Husayn, who used to sing praises, sing and lend poetry. His three brothers are considered among the great poets: Abdel Moneim Kaddour, who has a collection of poems entitled “The Return” and Omar Kaddour, who has two collections of “The Eyes of Others and a Voice from Heaven,” and Muhammad Ahmad Kaddour is a well-known poet.
education
Teaching the secret did not go beyond the level of seclusion, where the surahs of the Qur’an are memorized and some simple religious lessons in worship such as ablution and prayer, etc., but he was a self-made, diligent and fond of reading since his childhood.
He began his education in Khalawi al-Qarshab in his hometown, then in Khalawi al-Majzoub Jalal al-Din, where he memorized the Qur’an with the seven narrations.
Then he moved with his family from Al-Jabarab to Al-Shadenab following the flood of 1946 AD in northern Sudan and moved once more to the city of Omdurman, where the family settled.
At the beginning of the seventies of the last century, Kaddour left for Egypt with his Egyptian-born wife and daughters Soraya, Zainab, Nabila and Amal, where he resided for 26 continuous years in the Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek. In 2000, he returned to Sudan, and following that his visits and travels were repeated between Khartoum and Cairo.
At the beginning of his artistic life in the early fifties of the last century, Kaddour got acquainted with the symbols of modern lyrical poetry and the poets of the art portfolio in Sudan, and Nahl from some of their poems, memorizing their texts and chanting them with his voice. Abd al-Rahman, Syed Abd al-Aziz, Abd al-Rahman al-Rayeh, Muhammad Abdullah al-Umayy, al-Jagrio, Wad al-Radhi, and others.
his works
Kaddour made his way to the Sudanese Radio House early in his life and worked with a group of theater actors in preparing and presenting short radio skits that are broadcast within other radio programs such as family, women, children, cooperation, agricultural and health guidance, and others. Among these actors was Othman Hamida The owner of the character “Tour Al-Jar”, Abdul-Wahhab Al-Jaafari, Othman Al-Lord, Al-Fadil Saeed, Ahmed Atef and Ismail Khurshid.
When television broadcasting began in Sudan in the early sixties of the last century, Kaddour participated in presenting short plays on the air, most of which were presented improvised and spontaneously.
Kaddour worked on Sudan Corner Radio, Nile Valley Radio and Blue Nile Satellite Channel.
Al-Sir Kaddour also worked in the theater with Ahmed Atef, Al-Fadil Saeed and Othman Hamida, and wrote a number of theatrical texts, including the play “Al-Mismar”, in which the Sudanese actor Ali Mahdi starred in the eighties of the last century, and the plays “The Man Who Laughed Last” and “The Honeymoon.” The fourth” and “the Sharbakha solves it.” With the spread of the phenomenon of artistic teams traveling to the regions in Sudan in the fifties and sixties of the last oven to present performances to the public there, Kaddour joined those convoys and wrote regarding them a lot in his press articles.
Kadour also wrote many successful lyrical poems sung by great singers, including the poem “Ard al-Khair” performed by Ibrahim al-Kashef, the song “Sit al-Banat” by Salah Ibn al-Badia, “My Longing for You” performed by Muhammad Mirghani, and “I am with you” sung by Salah Muhammad. Issa and the poem “We met once” by Muhammad Hassan. Al-Qala’a Abdel Hafeez sang to him “People blame me for you” and Ayman Dekla “Farah Al-Layali.” The Algerian singer Warda also sang his poem “Ask the Roses”. The Syrian singer Zina Aftimos renewed the performance of his poem “Asmar Jameel”, which was sung by Ibrahim Al-Kashef.
Al-Sir Kaddour is an author of books, and he has published four books documenting the art of Sudanese singing and Sudanese singers, one of them entitled “Sudanese Art in Fifty Years 1908-1958” and the other entitled “The Bag of Poets and Artists” and the third book “Ahmed Al-Mustafa, the Artist of the Age.” The fourth is the book “The Revealer, Abu al-Fan.” Thus, he contributed to the formation of the Sudanese Singing Library, in addition to being the director of an institution in Cairo concerned with publishing literary and artistic works, the Al-Sharqa Foundation for Printing and Publishing.
Among his famous works is also presenting the Ramadan program “Songs and Songs” on Blue Nile TV, which Kaddour has been presenting in the Ramadan season for a decade and a half, and he found a response from the audience for its simplicity and spontaneity in presentation.
his notice
Al-Sir Kaddour worked as a journalist for a number of newspapers, including the newspaper “Al-Nas”, which he owned and edited by the famous journalist Muhammad Makki. He also practiced writing in technical, sports, and miscellaneous newspapers, and worked in the editorial secretariat. He signed some of his works in support of his beloved sports team, Al-Marrikh, under the name “Old Merikhabi”.
Kaddour also participated in seminars on lyrical art in Sudan.
Khartoum (Kush News)
