Ghassan Massoud

Ghassan Massoud is a Syrian actor and film-maker. He is best-known in the West for playing the role of the Kurdish Saladin in Ridley Scott's 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven. Massoud is best known in Syria for his appearance in many Syrian-made films, and writing and directing the theatre play Diplomasiyyoun which is a lighthearted look at issues in the Arab world today, and was part of the Syrian Ministry of Culture’s National Theater’s 2002 season.

He has appeared in the Syrian films The Chant of Rain, and in Haytham Hakky's wellknown work Memories of the Forthcoming Age, and on the Syrian stage was an actor in August Strindberg's Miss Julie