
Acting
Thuraya Ibrahim
Born — Died
1939-05-10 — 2015-01-18
Place of birth
Egypt
Known for
Acting
Credits
82 titles
Thuraya Ibrahim was an Egyptian actress. She started her career on the people's cultural theater in Tanta, before moving to Cairo to start landing roles in television series, then on film. She appeared in numerous productions since the late 1970s, including “Al Eshq wal Dam” (Passion and Blood), “Katkoot” and “Elhaqiqa wal Sarab” (The Truth and the Mirage).
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
8.2Tamer & Shawkeya follows posh lawyer Tamer who marries Shawkeya, a simple working‑class teacher. Their cultural and social differences lead to hilarious situations as they navigate family expectations, everyday life, and in‑laws in this classic Egyptian comedy of mismatched marriage and domestic chaos.
Tamer & Shawkeya
2006
8.0A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.
Critical Moments
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
المصراوية
2007
NRIn a dramatic context, the events of the series deal with the changes of the social relations between the Shazli family members and its head, Mahmoud, from the Royal era until the events of 1952.
Hawanem Garden City
1997
NRDr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.
Hekayat Beneeshha
2009
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
5.9Hamada gets involved in a furious conflict with the minister of interior affairs with all the power he has, as he searches for his mother, who does simple daily jobs to provide for her family. Through the conflict, Hamada discovers how big the gap between him -and others of his social status.
Qet And Far
2015
3.5The story of a grown man who is developmentally disabled. Despite having the physical appearance of an adult, his mental capacity is that of a 7-year-old child. As he goes through various situations, his admirable characteristics shine right through, as do the characteristics of those around him.
Tom W Jemmy
2013
4.2The film is set around the figure of Said (Ahmed Eid) who is struggling to complete his marriage to the girl to allow (May Kassab) and apply for an apartment within a conservation projects, but after obtaining the approval surprised by the events of the revolution on January 25, which prevents him from receiving, and begins suffering in attempt to rescue his sister and fulfillment to continue within the ranks of the rebels but surprised himself amid the rows ... Events follow each other with the descent of the army of the streets and to prosecute the former president and his two sons and the former regime, so that by allowing the marriage happy and having three children of different ideas between the liberal and the Islamic Brotherhood and the reference to the division of Egypt.
Good luck
2012
5.0Hossam is a state security officer whose new mission lands him in an unexpected situation. When he is assigned to protect the family of the UN ambassador Dawlat from Israeli threats, he finds himself teaming up with Malak, the babysitter of Dawlat's children, to save the family
Dawlat Security
2011
2000s · 21 titles
5.4A musical comedy telling the story of a mother who is trying to raise her son Sayyed after her husband's death. However, her son faces problems whether at college or with his uncle.
Romantic Sayed
2005
5.1Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.
Auntie Faransa
2004
5.0Kareem, a divorced young man, seeks the help of his girl friends from college to get back to his wife, Gigi. However, most of them like him, which makes the situation even more complicated as he tries to win Gigi back.
Kareem's Women
2005
4.7Roshdy is a carefree young man who spends his time at nightclubs with women. When his uncle dies, Roshdy is to receive all his fortune but on one condition: he should marry a good and committed woman.
Mr. Romantic
2009
6.3Fayez discovers a code sheet that his grandfather left to him before he was killed, of a treasure map in Jerusalem, drawn by the Jews fleeing to Egypt. He goes on an adventure with his friends, Ismail and Bedair, to search for the map hidden in an archaeological temple in Luxor.
Encrypted Letter
2008
6.3Heba is a TV presenter interested in broadcasting stories that touch on the everyday secret lives of women and the social injustices they face. Her frank style in broadcasting puts her husband's job and consequently her marriage in jeopardy.
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story
2009
4.7A wealthy businessman and a businesswoman face financial ruin during an economic crisis. As they try to recover, a comedic romance develops between them.
Bobbos
2009
7.2A police officer is chosen in the late 1960s for a unique and lifelong mission: to infiltrate Egypt’s criminal underworld. Stripped of his name and reputation, he adopts a new identity, living among smugglers, dealers, and nightclub owners. Over the years, he rises within this hidden world, all the while trying to balance his secret duty with the temptations of wealth, power, and desire. Against the backdrop of Egypt’s shifting political eras, his life becomes a meditation on morality, loyalty, and the fragile boundaries of identity and biblical-level metaphors.
Land of Fear
2000
4.1While escaping being forced to present himself for sacrifice to redeem his family, Katkout is discovered by a National Security Agency who find he bears a strong resemblance to Yousef Khoury, the international terrorist. He is then persuaded him to enter a training mission that will allow him to impersonate Yousef Khoury.
Katkout
2006
6.7The owner of a dancing and singing folk troupe searches for her missing daughter who went missing years ago. When she dies, the troupe's members locate the girl in Sharm El-Sheikh. She's been looking for them just as they were looking for her.
Inner City Story
2006
6.1Story of Omar, son of a wealthy business man, who was in a relationship with a model, Farah, and decided to forget her after a fight with her manager in a club with whom she cheated on him. His friend introduces him to Salma, a new colleague who recently moved to the university, she had a hard past when her ex boyfriend who cheated on her with her mother and he has to do his best to win her heart
Omar & Salma
2007
5.7Ayyoub is a young man who works in the advertizing field; thanks to his autistic mother who helps him to find new ideas. His boss tries to divert his ideas to be exploited in an illegal way. Ayyoub does not give up and decides to take revenge on his boss.
Zero Fat
2005
5.8Our man has about everything against him : he is short, weak, so simple, with an IQ far below the average. There is no wonder why he keeps on being teased by his friends, parents and even fiancee. But circumstances will turn him into a hero and then a vicious criminal feared by all. Half-educated and out-of-work, Taha, is kidnapped by a gang of thieves in his hometown Alexandria. Unbeknownst to them, neither Taha's mother nor his girlfriend has a fraction of the ransom
Born to Be a Criminal
2006
5.7A poor guy want to be famous singer but he is a failure one when his mother dies he knows from her that he has a millionaire twins brother.
The Nightingale of Dokki
2008
6.5A divorced young man happens to fall in love. The couple faces problems, as the young man does not want to settle down, she thinks he is a flirt, they break up, and events follows.
Snakes and Ladders
2001
7.2(Hamdy) and (Samira) married to traditional marriage,and they are not satisfied sexually because of problems rooted with them since childhood. Samira goes to Dr.(Fatma) the Psychiatrist hoping to find a solution for their problem,who succeeds in convincing the husband to take part in therapy.
The Ostrich and the Peacock
2002
10.0Nawara marries Dardiry who finds out on his wedding night that he is impotent due to an accident he had when he was a child. When No'man, who has been in love with Nawara since childhood, appears, a series of problems follow in his wake.
Passion And Blood
2002
4.0Al Nems is a quarreling microbus driver, and he moves from one job to another, and one day he meets a businessman who is assigned to deliver money with his wife and assistant, while he plots a plot, and he (Al Nems) becomes in the middle of a great adventure.
El Nems
2000
6.3A guy whose father was an assisstant to a drug dealer who killed him . So when the guy when he grow up he worked with the same dealer . At the end he killed the dealer for his father .
Convicted Outlaw
2007
6.0The poor girl falls in love with a wealthy young man who promises to marry her and take away her honor. Her father is forced to marry another poor man. The husband discovers after marriage what happened to (tomatoes) and decides to divorce her. She feels lost and decides to take revenge on those who deceived her and makes a plan to kill him.
Attempted Murder
2000
NRThe elderly millionaire Shaker feels that his end is near during his treatment in Germany, and he tries to search for his daughter, whom he had from an illegitimate relationship. Hamido takes advantage of this opportunity and introduces Manal as his lost daughter.
Ragol Laho Maddi
2000
1990s · 10 titles
5.1Three marginal figures who live on the roof overlooking an open-air cinema, strive to find work that would help them to live. Desperate as they are, they decide to rob a small bank branch imitating a foreign film that they watched at the open-air cinema.
Hallak Hoosh
1997
7.7Zain, a graduate of the Higher Institute of Music, lives with his mother, his brother Ramzi and his sister Houria, who suffers from living conditions after the death of their father 15 years ago, and while the family refuses to marry the neighbor of their neighbor, Rizk, Zain welcomes his belief that they love each other sincerely. Poor physical condition and his desperate attempts to work on the subway as a singer in front of passers-by or working with a submerged orchestra, Fawzia bint Radwan Pasha is in love with Zain but her rich father refuses to marry Zain poor.
Hysteria
1996
7.0Batta, Sakina, and Nawal .. Three friendly girls, neighbors from one lane, with similar difficult social conditions and also the dream of marriage before spinsterhood.
O Lovely Life
1996
NRA representation of the lives of a group of officers and soldiers, portraying their intertwined fates and the tragedies they have to witness, both on the battlefield and at home.
Wall of Heroism
1998
7.0A police officer finds himself worthless as he soon realizes there's no way he could put an end to a businessman associated with running a prostitution ring.
Al Basha
1993
NRA corrupt minister sends his men to kill his mistress's husband to look like a suicide, but the forensic doctor sees otherwise and is kidnapped in order to change the report. A gym teacher witnesses the kidnapping and tries to save her in spite of the dangerous confrontation.
The Day Demon
1997
10.0The journalist Nadia investigates the suicide of a girl in a house of ill fame, especially since the sister of the suicide girl rejects the fact that her sister was a prostitute. Meanwhile, Officer Ahmed also tries to uncover the mystery of the incident that coincided with the disappearance of many girls, and they reveal the mastermind behind a ring that recruits girls to work in prostitution.
Women Market
1994
NRTaking advantage of their striking resemblance, Mohammadain, a poor conscript, impersonates Majid, a wealthy man who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital. However, he is surprised to discover that Majid’s family wants to get rid of him.
Harib min Al-tagneed
1992
NRThe lawyer Hussien marries his colleague Dawlat, but as he becomes famous and successful, Dawlat grows jealous and resentful. They get divorced, until an opportunity comes along to prove herself, when a former classmate is accused of killing his wife and her lover, and she decides to defend him.
My Wife and the Wolf
1992
7.0Jafar Al-Masry's empire is about to collapse, the devil asks him to kill in exchange for saving him from bankruptcy. Jaafar agrees and kills the hunter Hammam. But guilt drives Jaafar to search for the village of Hammam, and he starts to get to know his relatives and wife Halima.
The Disappearance of Jaafar Al-Masri
1998
1980s · 7 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
وعد ومكتوب
1989
NRSina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina’’s family and tries to take advantage of this for his own interests, specially after meeting Arfan, the husband of Sina’s sister. Arfan uses Sina’s sister’s money for his own projects, and tries to pressure his daughter Hoda into marrying a rich Arab man.
House of the Poisoned Family
1986
4.5The young journalist, Sahar, meets Hussein in London and they return to Egypt, where he meets her father, Asim, the company manager, from whom his twin brother, Sherif, embezzled a large sum of money. After Sherif gets arrested, Hussein tries to sell everything to help him get out of jail.
Who is the Thief Between Us
1984
NRTeacher Kamal controls the market through bribery, but he loves Samah, the daughter of the teacher who raised him and cared for him. Meanwhile, Kamal robs him and burns his stores, which leads to his death. At the same time, Samah refuses to marry Kamal, especially since she is waiting for Sayed to return, who returns to disown her and seeks to marry Kamal's wealthy daughter. Thus, Samah decides to take revenge on everyone alone.
El Meaalema Samah
1989
7.0(Saeed Saleh) in the play (Kaablon) looking for an answer to a question that the princess asked him as a condition if he wanted her to accept marriage with him, the question was: Where is the human mind? (Saeed Saleh) traveled a lot, and he suffered from alienation, and almost died several times before he knew the answer. The answer to the question for which he went out.
Ka3balon
1985
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
NRDirected by : Samir Al Asfory
The Homeless Kids
1987
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
8.2Tamer & Shawkeya follows posh lawyer Tamer who marries Shawkeya, a simple working‑class teacher. Their cultural and social differences lead to hilarious situations as they navigate family expectations, everyday life, and in‑laws in this classic Egyptian comedy of mismatched marriage and domestic chaos.
Tamer & Shawkeya
2006
8.0A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.
Critical Moments
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
المصراوية
2007
NRIn a dramatic context, the events of the series deal with the changes of the social relations between the Shazli family members and its head, Mahmoud, from the Royal era until the events of 1952.
Hawanem Garden City
1997
NRDr. Layla Sallam, freshly healing from two tumultuous marriages, finds herself drawn to Omar, a complex patient battling mental illness. As their bond deepens—blurring lines between love and healing—Omar's quest for truth challenges Layla to confront her own demons.
Hekayat Beneeshha
2009
8.7The story of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, which depicts the era of the Abbasid state and its historical glory, focusing on the personal life of the Abbasid caliph who was famous for his infatuation with women, and shedding light on his amorous exploits and the feuds of the harem inside the palace.
Harun Al Rashid
1997
NRTaking place in the vegetable and fruit market, the conflicts within are shown through the story of Sabah, who began her life as a small saleswoman who suffered from poverty and hunger, but she fought through injustice and deprivation until she became one of the top market merchants.
Vegetable Market
2006
NRMahmoud works in the port of Alexandria and gets close to Adnan Fakhouri, the wealthy businessman, and marries his sister. After his ships and companies get nationalized by the 1952 July revolution, Mahmoud and his brothers travel to America and then return in the era of Sadat.
Mahmoud Al-Masri
2004
10.0The story revolves around a sports editor named (Hesham), who chooses to marry (Dina) without consulting his mother, who controls his father. Many problems occur when he moves to live near his family, due to his mother's interference in his life and her falling into disputes with his wife.
Door to Door
2011
8.4The latest that deals with the social and political history of Egypt revolves through three personalities, its children and grandchildren branches, and follows their conflicts, social roles, their human relationship and their different attitudes towards life and the homeland through the direct effects of economic interests on the relationships between the characters and the origins of these three trees.
Morning and Evening Talk
2001
8.4The events of the series revolve around the story of the rise from the bottom to the top of Abdel Ghafour Al Borai (Noor Al Sharif), starting from the agency of Hajj Ibrahim Sardinah (Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra) until he becomes a private business owner who makes a fortune, during which he has admired Fatima (Abla Kamel), a saleswoman. Al-Kushari, whom he admired, passes the days and marries Fatima and gives birth to his son Abdel-Wahhab (Mohamed Riyad), and four girls (Sunni, Bahira, Nafisa, and Nazira), and despite the availability of the elements of happiness in the life of Abdel Ghafour Al-Borai, he suffered from the separation of his only son. About him, and Abdel Wahab's insistence on building a very special world away from his father and his influence.
I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab
1996
8.4The events of the series revolve around the story of the rise from the bottom to the top of Abdel Ghafour Al Borai (Noor Al Sharif), starting from the agency of Hajj Ibrahim Sardinah (Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra) until he becomes a private business owner who makes a fortune, during which he has admired Fatima (Abla Kamel), a saleswoman. Al-Kushari, whom he admired, passes the days and marries Fatima and gives birth to his son Abdel-Wahhab (Mohamed Riyad), and four girls (Sunni, Bahira, Nafisa, and Nazira), and despite the availability of the elements of happiness in the life of Abdel Ghafour Al-Borai, he suffered from the separation of his only son. About him, and Abdel Wahab's insistence on building a very special world away from his father and his influence.
I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab
1996
Set in the early 1940s, when the rich controlled the land and the peasants lived on subsistence, the work addresses the conflict between the classes. It also discusses the idea that when a person is controlled by evil and the idea of revenge, he is often the first victim.
Tomorrow Is Another Day
2003
8.0No synopsis available yet.
شارع المواردي
1990
9.0When a father has to go abroad for work, he leaves his children in the care of his sister who comes to stay with them, only to be shocked when she witnesses their behavior. As the family struggles to adjust to the changes, the aunt wisely helps her brother's children through their problems.
A Woman from the Time of Love
1998
NRA Kuwaiti young man marries an Egyptian girl while studying in Egypt, and when he finishes his studies, he divorces her and marries his cousin, and travels without his knowledge of her pregnancy and after giving birth, Desouki marries her and raises her daughter. But after years, the father returns to Egypt and discovers that he has a daughter.
I will not walk the path of the past
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أجمل الزهور
1984
7.5In separate episodes, the series deals with the many sides of marital life and the various problems couples face across different classes and social backgrounds, through the story of the couple Mahmoud and Samia.
Tales of a Modern-Day Husband
2003
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
6.0Rizqa adopts and raises her nephew Maghawry after his mother dies during his birth. He grows up with his aunt in Al-Siyala neighborhood in Alexandria where they suffer from poverty and difficult circumstances, but events take a turn when a rich businessman claims that he's Maghawry's father.
Devils of Al-Sayala
2004
7.7The story of the lives of sisters Rayya and Sakina, two of the most famous criminals of the 20th century in Egypt as they terrified women and masterminded dozens of deaths. The series presents the circumstances that led them to becoming criminals and the impact of the environment on their future.
Rayya and Sakina
2005
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
مسائل عائلية جدا
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Never Fear
2009
NRHerbert Doperfield is desperate after his brother and his brother in law die during the Second World War, he regains hope again when he goes to Sudan and embraces Islam and changes his name to Abdul Kader. He then moves to Upper Egypt and falls in love with a girl from the big families there.
Abdul Kader the Foreigner
2012
8.0After her husband's passing, engineer Faten lives with her two kids, Farah and Tamer, and her father. She is being chased by her husband's cousin who wants to marry her, which causes her a lot of trouble, in addition to her kid's issues. Will Faten be able to put her life in order?
Where Is My Heart
2002
7.0A biography that revolves around the life of Khalil Hassan Khalil, a Political Science professor, in the period before the Egyptian revolution of 1952. The series explores how he suffered from poverty and social injustice and struggled to improve his social status and accomplish his dream of becoming a college professor.
The Homestead
1990
NRThe Truth and the Mirage is an Egyptian series produced by Media Production City. This series revolves around a wealthy, authoritarian woman, played by actress Fifi Abdo.
Truth and Mirage
2003
9.0Hekmat, the principal of a school for girls, tries to put her educational theory into effect across all the schools in Alexandria, but she faces a lot of obstacles, both within and without the school, in addition to her personal problems that she struggles to solve.
Conscience of Teacher Hekmat
1991
8.0The drug dealer, Afandina, tries to monopolize the drug trade in his neighborhood, but he has a tough rival in Al-Noah and his son Bara'a, who want to take revenge on Afandina for killing Gharib Al-Noah.
Good Mood
2013
7.7The series revolves around the family of Fatima Ta'alba (Huda Sultan) and her children. Her eldest son is Hajj Darwish (Youssef Shaaban). The idea of the series revolves around the framework of an Egyptian family, the mother, Fatima Talaba, who raises her children in her own style, and her main goal is to form a large, interconnected and undisjointed family, and to secure the family's future by buying agricultural lands for them to become property owners. Hajj Darwish is the head of the family and is married to Maryam (Fadia Abdel-Ghani), his cousin. Fatima Talabeh controls all the family’s decisions to the extent that she chooses the wives of her children without taking their opinion and marries them. The mother controls the wives of her children and the entire house, including those in it.
The Wedge
1996
NRNo synopsis available yet.
أمس لا يموت
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
ألف ليلة وليلة
1984
The story revolves around the village girl Zarifa , who everybody avoids and goes to work as a maid in the home of Hefnawy, but when her brother dies, she inherits his fortune and she's surprised by everyone getting closer to her.
Taming of the Shrew
1996
NRMunira falls in love with Sayed who works as a driver for her family. Her family forces her to marry someone else, and Sayed marries his cousin, Amina, who gives him money and he becomes a businessman. He divorces Amina and meets a woman whose family can help him with his projects.
Years of Misery and Love
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bardis
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
حضرة المحترم
1999
NRThe series revolves around a group of young people who live in the same hostel in Tahrir Square, and experience many funny and comedic situations during their stay together.
6 Tahrir Square
2009
NRNo synopsis available yet.
نوبة حراسة
1998
