Khaled Taja
# Khaled Taja

Khaled Omar Taja (Arabic: خالد عمر تاجا; November 6, 1939 – April 4, 2012) was a Syrian-Kurdish actor born in Rukneddine district in the city of Damascus. The poet Mahmoud Darwish called him "Anthony Quinn of the Arabs". He's credited for appearing alongside Salah Zulfikar in Memory of a Night of Love (1973). Taja worked in over 62 different TV series. He died at the age of 73 on April 4, 2012.

## Career and filmography

### Cinema

* 1973 – Memory of a Night of Love

### TV series

* 2000 – Al-Zeer Salem
* 2001 – Salah Al-deen Al-Ayyobi
* 2004 – Al-Taghriba Al-Filistinia

## Awards

* Khaled Taja won the Best Actor Award for a Second Role for his performance in the Palestinian TV series Al-Taghreba al-Falastenya, at the Cairo Festival for Radio and Television, 2005.
