Background
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ban moved from Yemen to Britain in the 1960s, and it was in that country that Bader Ben Hirsi was born and raised, along with six brothers and seven sisters.
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ban moved from Yemen to Britain in the 1960s, and it was in that country that Bader Ben Hirsi was born and raised, along with six brothers and seven sisters.
Goldsmiths, University of London.
Hirsi"s father, Yahya al-Hirsi al-Ban, was from the city of Lahij. Hirsi received a degree in business from the University of Buckingham, and worked in London as an investment banker for several years. However, he decided to move into drama, and received a degree in drama production from Goldsmiths College, part of the University of London.
Three of his plays, A Boring Affair, Claptrap, and On the Side of the Angels, were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 2000, Hirsi released the documentary The English Sheikh and the Yemeni Gentleman, which he directed and produced with the help of British expatriate Tim Mackintosh-Smith. In 2005, he released A New Day in Old Sana"a (a romantic drama shot in San‘a’, the capital), which became the first feature length film to be shot in Yemen and the first Yemeni film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival.
Hirsi himself had a cameo as a djinni at the end of the film.