Mai Skaf

Acting

Mai Skaf

Born — Died

1969-04-13 — 2018-07-23

Place of birth

Syria

Known for

Acting

Credits

13 titles

A Syrian actress. She studied at the Department of French Literature at the University of Damascus, and during her studies she participated in presenting many theatrical works at the French Cultural Center at the university. Her talent had a significant impact on drawing the attention and interest of the film director Maher Kado, who chose her for the a movie in 1991. Her role Tima in Al Ababeed attracted more attention. She died in 2018 in France of a heart attack.

Known for

Omar poster
9.0

A historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State.

Omar

2012

Sert Alhob poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sert Alhob

2007

Castles poster
NR

The series revolves around a conflict among numerous princes, where each prince believes he is the rightful ruler to unify the kingdom and end the fragmentation plaguing the land.

Castles

1998

Cordoba's Spring poster
9.5

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.

Cordoba's Spring

2003

Orchidia poster
8.0

The Assyrian king conquered Orchidia kingdom, the defeated king's wife and her two children fled to Samara Kingdom, to start her revenge.

Orchidia

2017

Al Ababeed poster
NR

This tragic series explores numerous themes set against the backdrop of the reign of Zenobia, the “Queen of Queens,” and highlights the wealth and grandeur of the Kingdom of Palmyra, its trade, and the kingdom’s significance during Zenobia’s reign. It also explores social classes—including the nobility, the Ashraf, the priests, and the laborers—and highlights some of the customs that prevailed regarding women from the Ashraf family, as well as the traditions, norms, and marriage practices of that era.

Al Ababeed

1997

Film credits

Series credits

Omar poster
9.0

A historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State.

Omar

2012

Sert Alhob poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sert Alhob

2007

Castles poster
NR

The series revolves around a conflict among numerous princes, where each prince believes he is the rightful ruler to unify the kingdom and end the fragmentation plaguing the land.

Castles

1998

Cordoba's Spring poster
9.5

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.

Cordoba's Spring

2003

Orchidia poster
8.0

The Assyrian king conquered Orchidia kingdom, the defeated king's wife and her two children fled to Samara Kingdom, to start her revenge.

Orchidia

2017

Al Ababeed poster
NR

This tragic series explores numerous themes set against the backdrop of the reign of Zenobia, the “Queen of Queens,” and highlights the wealth and grandeur of the Kingdom of Palmyra, its trade, and the kingdom’s significance during Zenobia’s reign. It also explores social classes—including the nobility, the Ashraf, the priests, and the laborers—and highlights some of the customs that prevailed regarding women from the Ashraf family, as well as the traditions, norms, and marriage practices of that era.

Al Ababeed

1997

The Knights poster
NR

The series revolves around the historical conflict between the Arabs, Persians, and Romans in the Levant during the pre-Islamic period, and highlights the relationships of friendship, love, jealousy, and enmity that unfolded during the war.

The Knights

1999

The Sun Rises Again poster
NR

The story of a girl who grows up with a reckless father and loses her mother who dies of cancer but she goes on with her life trying to find the happiness she always longed for.

The Sun Rises Again

2005

Murder in the Memory poster
NR

An Arabic-language series based on Agatha Christie's novel The Sleeping Murder, about a murder that occurred and went undiscovered until 20 years later.

Murder in the Memory

1992

Akhar ayam alymam poster
NR

The story of the Kingdom of Yamamah in its two phases of prosperity and tragic collapse, and the futile conflict between the two great Arab tribes of Tasm and Jadis. Yamamah fell into the mire of these conflicts, but it maintained its independence and prosperity for a long time until the scourge of injustice and tyranny befell it, and the epidemic of division, dispute and conflict spread among its people.

Akhar ayam alymam

2004

Touq Al-Asfalt poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Touq Al-Asfalt

2014