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Alaa Al Ansari

Iraqi director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ38460762 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alaa Al Ansari (Arabic: علاء الانصاري) is an Iraqi director. He worked in the United Arab Emirates and Iraq for several years for Ara Art Production, where he directed many television works.

Bio

Born in "Al-Mashkhab" in Baghdad in 1980, he married and studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and graduated from it.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Alaa Al Ansari” as iraqi director. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alaa, Ansari and Iraqi.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alaa, Ansari and Iraqi providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Alaa Al Ansari”, the useful work is to connect “iraqi director” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q38460762. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alaa Al Ansari” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.