[...] Mr. Souraty whom I taught at the Beirut University College and whom I got to know outside the class as an actor in several university and sometimes professional theatre productions is provided with such a rich personality, that it would be difficult for me to put him into words.
First, he is unquestionably the best student I ever met during my three years of teaching at BUC. He represents that sort of student that makes teaching a worthwhile pleasure.
Intelligent, witty as seldom people are, he is above all a student with remarkable cinematographical skills. [...]
As for his essays and film critiques, not only are they impeccably written, but they subtly unveil his inner richness, his extreme sensitivity to everything that is human, and his fine sense of critique. His critiques are the most interesting, convincing and the strongest ever written by any of my students.
Uptill here, Mr. Souraty seems to be an ideal student. As it happens, he is not. When I see him, I thing of an excessively stubborn person, sometimes a sickly stubborn one. There are times when it becomes impossible to communicate with him, to stand on his wave length. It is most certainly a major drawback, but I got to realize that it is a good quality that Mr. Souraty possesses as an artist. An artist who knows how to defend his artistic convictions with strength and earnestness.
Dima Dabbous-Sensening - March 1991
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