Cyrine Abdel Nour

The backstage story of one of the most successful Arab dramas in history, narrating the phases of its inception, execution, production and direction.

Professor Ramadan is a feared and well respected teacher in a village, forced to take a job in the city teaching at a private school. He soon realizes that most of his students are infatuated with a famous singer whom he tries to ban all mention of within the school, only to fall in love with her himself.

Love, passion, responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt. In 1948, Hassan is working his first day on the job for a telegraph company when he has to deliver a telegram to Noura, a beautiful woman who is waiting on a ship docked in the harbor. The message is from Noura's fiancé, but when Hassan sees her, he acts on an impulse, and by the end of the day he's slept with Noura. In 1973, Hassan crosses paths with Noura again; her brother is in the hospital, and Hassan happens to meet Nadia, the beautiful woman's daughter who he may have fathered. And in 2001, elderly Hassan visits Cairo and meets Ali, Nadia's son, and both are taken aback at the similarities between them.

Omar is trying to reclaim the inheritance of his father from his uncle. He uses his colleague Rauof, who turns out to be a crook and then flees to Lebanon and Omar goes to jail. Lina the Lebanese girl falls in love with Raouf, and they agree to marry, but he escapes to Cairo.

In Post-War Lebanon, after Taif Accord in 1989, and the Syrians withdrawal from Lebanon,seemingly disconnected at first, the stories reveal an interconnection, particularly with an Egyptian director seeking societal freedom in Beirut falls victim to its repression.

the story of the hidden life of the Diva

In a village by the Lebanon-Syria border, the head of an arms-smuggling clan contends with family conflicts, power struggles and complicated love.

A Saher program presented by the artist (Amir Karara) and hosts in each episode some of the stars of the artistic community and reviews with them their artistic career, the difficulties they faced, their relations with their colleagues and their daily lives.