Mohamed Karim
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Mohamed Karim was born in Egypt, 22 May 1968. He graduated from two universities in Egypt: Faculty of Arts, Department of Greek Roman Archeology (1993), Faculty of Arts, Department of Theatre Drama and Criticism (2002). He has been acting since the age of 7. He directed his first performance in 1993. He has participated in 65 performances in the varied roles of actor/ director/ assistant director. He has worked with many international directors including Joseph Shaina (Poland), Eos Schopol (germany), Laurie Mccants (USA), Beth Skener (USA), Fediricko Sangirardi (Italy), Auni Karomi (Iraqi German).
Mohamed has participated in many national and international festivals for adults and children’s theatre as a guest or in performances under his direction in Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Tunisia, Switzerland, Ireland, France, Germany and China. He changed his career in 2003 from adult’s theatre to children’s theatre when he found trends in Egyptian children’s theatre to be very weak and determined that it deserved to be developed.
The International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) selected Mohamed group (Manethon) to be the official representative for ASSITEJ in Egypt and he became the Head of ASSITEJ Egypt by discussion amongst the executive committee of ASSITEJ International on June 29 2006 during the Schaexpir Festival in Linz, Austria. He immediately began to consolidate his work in line with his responsibility. Consequently in February 2007, he established the first festival for children’s theatre in Egypt: the Cairo International Forum for Children’s Theatre with the participation of Sweden, The Netherlands, Jordan, Austria and Egypt. The festival attracted sponsors and they contacted ASSITEJ Egypt to cooperate in the organization of the second festival in February 2008 with the participation of 20 countries.
Now Mohamed plans to establish festivals for children’s theatre all over Egypt and to raise support from other Arabian countries to answer the call to establish ASSITEJ centres in the rest of the 22 countries of the Arab area.
