Syria buries Hollywood producer Akkad
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Moustapha Akkad, a Hollywood producer with Syrian roots, was given a hero&#146;s burial on Sunday.
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Moustapha Akkad, a Hollywood producer with Syrian roots, was given a hero's burial on Sunday.

Akkad and his daughter Reem were among 57 people who died when three suicide bombers blew up luxury hotels in Amman, Jordan on Wednesday.

President Bashar Al Assad signed a decree awarding Akkad one of Syria's top medals for "his Arab nationalist stances".

He was buried in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

Akkad is known as producer of the "Halloween" horror films, but is most famous in the Arab world for directing a film about early Islam.

His two most famous films starred Anthony Quinn. "The Message" was a controversial 1976 epic about early Islam in which Quinn plays an uncle of Prophet Mohammad.