“The general returned smiling.” Maxime Khalil returns to Damascus and waves the flag of the revolution

The artist is back Maxim KhalilHe is considered one of the first Syrian representatives to join the Syrian revolution, to the capital, Damascus, after an absence of more than a decade as a result of security prosecution by the ousted regime’s intelligence.

Maxim Khalil (46 years old) arrived in Damascus on Thursday morning, where he was received by a number of prominent Syrian revolution activists.

Wave the flag of the revolution

Syrian media activist Hadi Al-Abdullah published a video recording of the moment he met Maxim Khalil and hugged him, along with a number of media activists, namely Muhammad Belas, Muhammad Al-Faisal, and Muhammad Al-Daher.

The artist Maxim held the flag of the Syrian revolution and waved it, and directed his words to all Syrians: “Congratulations to all of us… Congratulations to all of you,” referring to the end of the era of tyranny in Syria with the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and his flight to Russia on the eighth of this December. .

Syrians reacted on social media to the return of Maxim Khalil under the title “The General Came Back Smiling,” in reference to the series “Smile, General,” which was shown in Ramadan 2023 on Arab TV 2 and starred Maxim.

The hero of an exciting series

The aforementioned series, whose script was written by Samer Radwan, directed by Orwa Muhammad, and produced by the “Metafora” artistic production company, presented a bloody power struggle between a head of state, His role is played by the Syrian artist Maxime KhalilAnd his military brother, in order to strengthen control over power, with the confrontation including conspiracies, intrigues, and scandals that disturb the power from the top of the pyramid, to alliances of money and corruption, and their devastating repercussions on the general public.

The Syrians then linked this series to the nature of the Assad family’s rule in Syria, which extends from 1971 until 2024.

Maxime Khalil is one of the first Syrian actors to join the Syrian revolution that broke out in March 2011, and participated in peaceful demonstrations, before facing severe security restrictions and death threats that forced him to leave Syria in 2012.

Maxim won the “Adonia” Award as the best Arab actor in a second role for the series “Time of Shame” in 2009, then he won the Best Arab Actor Award at the “Murex d’Or” Festival in 2012, which he dedicated to “the martyrs of Syria.”