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Ghassan Azab
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The Night · 1992The Night
★ 7.11992
MovieDrama
In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death. Through the daily lives, dreams, fears, and hopes of its citizens, Malas chronicles his hometown Quneitra in the Golan Heights between 1936, the year of the first revolts against the British and Zionists in Palestine until the year of the city's destruction. He seeks to exorcise a feeling of shame and humiliation that long accompanied the image of his father and also his town, occupied by Israelis in 1967.
The Key · 2012The Key
2012
SeriesDrama
A social drama about the Syrian society and the corruption that runs rampant across all of its different classes, as well as exploring some ideals like love, integrity, and honesty.
Unknown Culprit · 2021Unknown Culprit
★ 8.02021
SeriesDramaMystery
The story opens with the murder of businessman Faisal Muthanna, ruled a homicide likely perpetrated by someone who wanted to rob him of his wealth. Elsewhere, Samir, a despairing tailor and taxi driver, reunites with his friend Yazen after years of war separated them.
Harun Al-Rashid · 2018Harun Al-Rashid
★ 7.52018
SeriesAction & AdventureDrama
The series deals with the struggle Harun Al-Rashid faced when his brother Al-Hadi tried to dethrone him. After his mother helped him stay in his position, he had to deal with all the plots that were coming his way. The show also examines the civilization under Harun Al-Rashid's rule.
Cordoba's Spring · 2003Cordoba's Spring
★ 9.52003
SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama
The second chapter of the acclaimed Andalusian trilogy by Walid Seif and Hatem Ali. Set in the golden age of Umayyad Cordoba, it traces the extraordinary rise of Muhammad ibn Abi Amir — known as Al-Mansur — from a young scholar arriving in Cordoba seeking knowledge, to the most powerful man in Andalusia. A sweeping story of ambition, political genius and the glittering, fragile peak of Arab civilisation in Spain. Stars Taim Hassan and Jamal Suleiman.
Palestinian Alienation · 2004Palestinian Alienation
★ 9.52004
SeriesDrama
The first comprehensive dramatic telling of the Palestinian Nakba, seen through the eyes of a poor rural family from the 1930s British Mandate era through the massacres of 1948 and the defeat of 1967. Written by Palestinian poet Walid Seif — based on his own family history — and directed by the late Syrian master Hatem Ali, this is widely considered one of the greatest Arab television dramas ever produced. A monumental work of collective memory, historical witness and human endurance.
Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi · 2010Al Qaqaa Ibn Amr Al Tamimi
2010
SeriesDrama
The series deals with the biography of the great companion Al-Qa’qa’ bin Amr Al-Tamimi, with its many heroic deeds that raised the banner of Islam in several situations, by highlighting an important Islamic stage and re-dramatizing it.
The Falcon of Quraish · 2002The Falcon of Quraish
★ 9.52002
SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama
When the Abbasids overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus, slaughtering nearly the entire dynasty, one young prince escapes — Abd al-Rahman. Hunted across deserts and seas, he eventually reaches the fringes of the Muslim world and, through sheer will and political genius, founds a new Umayyad emirate in Andalusia. Written by Walid Seif and directed by Hatem Ali, this is the first chapter of their celebrated Andalusian trilogy — epic, human and historically meticulous.
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