
Acting
Magda Zaki
Born
1968-07-27 (58)
Place of birth
Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Magda Zaki is an Egyptian stage, television and film actress. She studied acting at the High Institute of Theatrical Arts. Following her graduation, she started landing minor roles in television series like "Ahlam El Fata El Ta'er" (Dreams of the Flying Kid). She started starring in successful shows by the beginning of the new century, with roles in series like "A'elat Elhag Metwaly" (Haj Metwally's Family), and "Abbas EL Abyad fel Youm El Eswed" (White Abbas in a Black Day).
Known for
8.2A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.
El Helmeya Nights
1987
8.0Based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz (The Harafish), the series presents the biography of the popular hero Ashour Al-Naji and his family, as he represents a symbol of principles, values, justice, mercy and fairness to the simple.
Alseera AlAshouria: AlHarafeesh
1998
7.2Based on records of the Egyptian intelligence agency, the story follows Saif and Dina who carry out a series of secret operations to expose terrorist plots that seek to divide the Arab region and spread Al-Qaeda’s influence in the world.
Counterattack
2021
Karima is a housewife, who works more than one job to support her family. After her husband dies, she discovers that he was married to another woman and that he has saved a huge fortune. So, she gets a large share of this money and turns into a stingy woman.
Karima .. Karima
2009
NRThe events revolve around Ali who gets unjustly fired from his job, so he starts earning money in various ways, including fraud and scam, but this road only gets him to face more troubles and challenges.
May God Bear Witness to My Fasting
2017
NRAfter a wealthy man marries a younger girl, she inherits his fortune after he dies, which puts her in conflict with his nephew who claims his right in the inheritance.
City Gates
1981
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
4.8The events take place inside an orphanage, around a young girl named Sukar, who lives with a large group of children. The orphanage is run by an obnoxious woman and her henchman, who have bad intentions
Sukkar
2023
NRWhen the entire city is infected with chicken pox, including the children and staff of the orphanage, they do their best to search for a cure with the help of a doctor who is trying to develop a vaccine against the disease and a magician who claims that he can cure them. Sukkar, with the help of her friends, also tries to save circus animals that are subjected to cruelty and abuse.
Sukkar: Sabaabaa wa Hoboub Al Kharziz
2024
2000s · 5 titles
NRAs Hanan files a lawsuit against her impotent husband for refusing to divorce her, she drops the case after he dies in an accident, after which she works in a care home for people with special needs.
By My Heart and Its Joy
2000
5.3After having no job, Medhat goes to work in a hotel in Sinai and he helps his friend Majid to get a job there. When Majid saves the life of an American tourist, she gives him third of her wealth before she dies, provided that he implements the will for the benefit of Israeli authorities.
Look & Admire
2001
NRPolice officer (Hossam) succeeds in arresting Dr. (Ryaid) who's sentenced to death in a murder case. But he uncovers other aspects to the murder that points to the involvement of the Mafia that trade narcotic pills.
The Forbidden Talks
2000
NRA credit manager and her colleague discover that the bank's chairman and his manager are stealing the depositors' money. They try to make her cooperate with them, but she decides to hunt those involved to obtain condemning documents.
Woman Under Surveillance
2000
NRAfter the defeat of 1967, Samia moves with her brother and his family to another city and is forced to marry without love from Mossad the butcher, while having an affair with Amer the student.
The Honour
2000
1990s · 13 titles
7.6Ahmed heads to Tahrir compound to extract papers to move his son to another school. There he clashes with the administrative obstacles. He suddenly finds himself involved in carrying a weapon and taking hostages at the government building and becomes a terrorist in the process.
Terrorism and Kebab
1992
6.3Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan, the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality, such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.
The Terrorist
1994
NRThe events of the play take place in a lyrical and comic form in a local neighborhood where Ramzi lives. He is writing a play and trying to present it to the people of the neighborhood, but Officer Sherif removes the advertisement for the play.
Alabanda
1998
7.5A group of cousins, the relationship between them is not normal, some of them are rich in excess and do not know how to spend money, and buy antiques and antiques that are worthless. Hind does not help the children of the uncle but insult them and despise the poverty of some of them. Afrotto, who comes out of one of the Hind al-'Am's antiques, does not spoil the relations between them. He is an impossibly devoid of extraordinary abilities. He lacks the ordinary abilities. He tries to distinguish between the family members, but one of them observes that if they unite they will become a great power and can confront Afrotto. Can only be done after a lot of losses and disasters, including loss of money and loss of honor.
Afrotoo
1999
NRMabrouk, the village idiot and his sister Fatheya inherit a land after the death of their mother. Bolbol moves to Cairo after suffering from her step mother's treatment and becomes a prostitute, when she returns to the village, she meets Mabrouk who was her childhood sweetheart and their love flourishes again.
Mabrouk and Bulbul
1998
NRAn English literature doctor and her husband works as a psychology teacher at the university. They have been six years of marriage without having children, and problems abound between them. Some friends advise the doctor to go to Attar to take some medicinal herbs that benefit pregnancy, and at the same time, some friends advise the husband to go to a psychologist, and indeed both are done, and many events occur.
Dawood's Ticket
1990
7.0The film depicts different group of characters who are held up by a traffic sign. A romantic love story grows between Re'u (Mohamed Fuad), the football fan and Samia (Laila Alawi), the nurse who loves to sing. And Naeamat who's having a baby and wants to go to the hospital with her husband.
Traffic Light
1996
NRAfter the October War, Shehta the street vendor returns from Port Said, but is unfairly accused of killing his friend Sayed who was found dead and tries to prove his innocence with the help of his army companion Meshmesh.
131 Hard Works
1993
NRAl-Kharabi, the poor employee who supervises the stores of the Scientific Institution for Book Printing, lives in very miserable conditions, and suffers from the ignorance and domineering of his wife (Naima), so he decides to keep a pair of rabbits in the store, in response to the advice of (Tawfiqa), the playful worker. Rabbits multiply terribly in the warehouse and eat books, colonize all corporate offices, and threaten an environmental catastrophe.
The Rabbits invasion
1992
9.0Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him
The Mix-up
1994
NRA comedy about a poor man named Zawaoui who lives with his wife Bahija and his brothers in a small villa he inherited from his family and tries to buy from him but refuses because he wants to preserve his family's inheritance. A businessman who wants to buy the villa will attack the villa but fails to grab. On them, where the brothers Zouaoui revenge from Fawzi to protect their brother.
Let's Dance
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
النسانيس
1990
NRSheikh Imran treats his son harshly to force him to pray, and contradictory thoughts are deposited in the son's head. He tries to repent, but he is torn between his desire to practice his normal life and his fear of committing sins.
Angels do not inhabit earth
1995
1980s · 11 titles
6.0A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.
Love in a Jail Cell
1983
6.6Shaker returns from Doha after an absence of eight years hoping to resume his life in Cairo with his siblings Fawzia, Najwa, Ibrahim and Mahdi, after achieving them financial security. He's shocked by the social changes that happened while he was away that affected them,making them no longer need him.
Return of a Citizen
1986
7.0Hassouna identifies customs with the businessman Shaheen, who offers him assistance in exchange for facilitating the procedures of his illicit goods. Hasina is lured to get involved in a relationship, and recorded by Shaheen motivated, until Hassouna becomes at their disposal, Shahine Hassouna claims that his wife, threatens him with tape and acquiesces to him for fear of the scandal, and agrees to facilitate his suspicious operations, but after an innocent injustice at customs as a result of Hassouna's corruption, He then dies, wakes up his conscience, surrenders himself, reports on Shaheen and the rest of his corrupt partners to purify himself, and his deceased colleague is considered.
Mothers in Exile
1981
5.0Najwa, a student, is involved in a relationship with a colleague of hers, so she seduces his mother's husband's shalatah to marry her, but she goes to prison for his suspicious activity and confiscates his money and Najwa loses the way.
Madame Shalatta
1986
NRA lighthearted social comedy about two very different families forced to live together, leading to humorous conflicts and chaos caused by their contrasting habits, personalities, and priorities.
Two families in an apartment
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Had Al-Saif
1986
NRNadia completely rejects the idea of marriage, but her mother insists on marrying her off so that her younger sister Hoda can join her. Shaarawy proposes to Nadia, but she does not see him as the right husband for her and that he is the last person she would think of marrying. However, as the days pass, it becomes clear to her that he is better than others and that he loves her and is trying to please her.
A Call to Marriage
1983
NRAhmed's father died when he was in the final year of medical school, and the pregnancy became heavy for him, so he had to depend to his sister and mother, so he had to work in the morning as a doctor in a hospital and in the afternoon a contracting worker, his girlfriend Hanaa emigrated him to marry a rich man, so he was injured with a psychological complex that turned him into avenger of all Eve's daughters.
Dream Hunter
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أسبوع عسل
1984
NRNo synopsis available yet.
مسرحية الانون وسيادته
1988
NRNadia’s mother dies when she is young, leaving her mental development at the level of an eight-year-old. Her father hires tutors to educate her, but they all quit until Saber patiently stays and continues teaching her despite the difficulties she causes.
Arousa teganen
1980
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
8.2A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.
El Helmeya Nights
1987
8.0Based on the novel by Naguib Mahfouz (The Harafish), the series presents the biography of the popular hero Ashour Al-Naji and his family, as he represents a symbol of principles, values, justice, mercy and fairness to the simple.
Alseera AlAshouria: AlHarafeesh
1998
7.2Based on records of the Egyptian intelligence agency, the story follows Saif and Dina who carry out a series of secret operations to expose terrorist plots that seek to divide the Arab region and spread Al-Qaeda’s influence in the world.
Counterattack
2021
Karima is a housewife, who works more than one job to support her family. After her husband dies, she discovers that he was married to another woman and that he has saved a huge fortune. So, she gets a large share of this money and turns into a stingy woman.
Karima .. Karima
2009
NRThe events revolve around Ali who gets unjustly fired from his job, so he starts earning money in various ways, including fraud and scam, but this road only gets him to face more troubles and challenges.
May God Bear Witness to My Fasting
2017
NRAfter a wealthy man marries a younger girl, she inherits his fortune after he dies, which puts her in conflict with his nephew who claims his right in the inheritance.
City Gates
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أخو البنات
1984
7.1Abbas the history teacher traveled to Iraq in search of money and left his wife and children. Upon his return after spending years in prison, he discovers that his family thinks him dead. His wife married his best friend, and he's forced to live under another guy's identity, Lotfy Al-Ganainy.
White Abbas in the Black Day
2004
8.0When an apothecary and his wife have trouble conceiving, the wife encourages her husband to marry a maid to beget him children. Ironically, the two women get pregnant at the same time.
The Spice Dealer and the Seven Girls
2002
NRThe idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.
Abo El-Ela 90
1996
7.6The story of Metwalli who started his life from nothing, working for a textile merchant who trusted him a lot. After the merchant's death, Metwali marries his widow and soon controls her entire wealth. He becomes one of the biggest textiles merchants, and then marries one wife after another.
The Family of Hajj Metwalli
2001
NRZainab Al Shalakani from the Iron Lady Party is a dictator and pays lip service to democracy. She chooses everything for her two sons and controls every detail of their lives. Suddenly her son, who has been absent from her for twenty years, returns and tries to solve his brothers’ problems with their mother.
Your Dreams Are Orders
2007
1.0Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.
The sea said
1982
NRA dramedy about four women who have one thing in common: a married son and a monster-in-law attitude. Each of them begins to fulfill the stereotype of the “controlling mother-in-law”, tormenting both their daughters-in-law and their sons.
Mothers-in-Law Fight
2014
NRMr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry carries a lot of good values for a life that is close to the utopian city. When he retires, he decides to live his life helping his relatives after he adopts the daughter of a friend from work and goes to Cairo.
Mr. Abo El-Ela El-Beshry's Journey
1986
8.0After Ibrahim Al-Tayer comes out of prison, he returns to stealing, where he smuggles 750 thousand pounds, and hides with the money in a mental hospital in agreement with the hospital's director alone. But when the director dies, Ibrahim escapes with another to hide from the police and gang that wants the money.
Dreams Of El Tayer Boy
1978
NRThe series revolves around two colleagues at law school who get married after a love story and own a law firm. The competition between them, turns into a family war and when they try to repair their relationship, they are chased by everyone.
Everyday Wars
2009
6.5It tells the story of the Egyptian national security apparatus's struggle against hidden forces and complex threats affecting the stability of the nation, and gradually reveals networks and alliances that require decisive battles and smart fights in a tense, thrilling, and suspenseful narrative.
Snake's head
2026
NRThe story revolves around a businessman who does many bad deeds and loses his memory after an accident, while his family thinks that he died. He ends up in a simple neighborhood where its people help him go on with his life. Till his family finds out that he's still alive, and trying to recover his memory.
The Other Man
1999
7.0After his appointment as general manager of financial and administrative affairs, Abd al-Baqi al-Jawhari (Hassan Abdin) discovers a lot of manipulation in connection with the project (Tohme) village that is supervised by the Bahrawi Governorate, and when he seeks to reveal what he knew, the project beneficiaries fabricate the charge of embezzlement of Abd al-Baqi, and he enters prison From here, his daughter Widad (Firdous Abdel Hamid) cooperates with Bashir Abu Al-Saad (Mahmoud Al-Jundi) to prove her father's innocence, but they discover that the game is bigger than they imagined.
Dad, You, & I in Dismay
1989
8.0The series reviews the daily life of Professor Shalash, through a large number of comical situations and paradoxes that arise through his relationship with his wife and children, or his relationships with neighbors or with his colleagues at work
The Family Of Mr. Shalash
1990
NRAfter losing his job and the family of the woman he loves rejects him, a man travels to his relative in Austria to find suitable work, but when he does not find him, he lives with a a group of immigrant Egyptians and meets Margret, who converts to Islam and marries him.
Who Doesn't Love Fatma?
1996
NRA group of men decide to form an association called "Men of the World Unite" after the roles between women and men are exchanged.
Men of the World Come Together
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
مغامرات زكية هانم
1992
NRGout worked as a teacher trying to support and care for her family, but her son, Hassan, the doctor, is experiencing many troubles in his life because of his mother's unbalanced behavior, but Gout soon finds herself in an unlikely conflict
Qut Al Qulob
2020
NRThe events revolve around (Jaber), who returns to his town after several years he spent expatriate, and falls in love with (noble) despite his circumstances, and then the villagers live in terror because of a defect in the oil wells.
Price of Fear
1988
The story revolves around a psychiatrist living in a working-class neighborhood in Egypt. She cares for her patients in their homes and doesn't require them to come to her clinic for examinations. This doctor discovers the suffering of many young men and women due to the problem of spinsterhood and delayed marriage, and she begins to help them get married
The Alley of Spinsters
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No synopsis available yet.
حارة العوانس
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