Naji Jabr

Acting

Naji Jabr

Born — Died

1940-10-26 — 2009-03-30

Place of birth

Syria

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Al Khawali poster
NR

The story of Nassar Ibn Oraibi, a fighter against injustice, that sheds light on the life in the Damascus neighborhood and the role of one woman who becomes responsible for the house and her four daughters in light of her husband's absence during the Hajj.

Al Khawali

2000

Salt & Sugar poster
7.0

“Salt and Sugar” is the first Syrian work shown on Syrian television in 1973 during the month of Ramadan, and its events take place inside the prison when the social worker (Sabah Al-Jazairi) visits the prison to search for the cause of the prisoners’ delinquency, and (Dhiab Mashhour) sings the song “Alamaya,” and remembers Ghawar Al-Tosha (Duraid Lahham) is his mother and longs for life outside the bars. He sings his famous songs “Lou Lou Lou” and “Oh my beloved woman, ya mo.” The artist Dhiyab Mashhour also sings “Ya Abourdin.” The artist Taroub also presented two songs, “Tik Tok,” as part of a competition organized by Hosni. Al-Borzan (Nihad Qalai) inside the prison, through a Syrian comedy act starring Duraid Lahham and Nihad Qalai, in collaboration with Yassin Bakoush, Naji Jabr, Najah Hafeez, Abdul Latif Fathi Sabah Al-Jazairi and others, and the work is directed by Khaldoun Al-Maleh.

Salt & Sugar

1973

Return of Ghawar poster
8.0

The Arab world's most beloved rogue is back. In this long-awaited return, Duraid Lahham resurrects his iconic Ghawar Tawasha — this time wrongly accused of murdering his wife and thrown behind bars for decades. Upon his release, he walks into a Syria grappling with the harsh economic realities of the nineties, determined to find his daughter and prove his innocence. Equal parts comedy and drama, it's warm, funny, and quietly heartbreaking — a homecoming worth waiting for.

Return of Ghawar

1998

Awlad al-Qaymariyah poster
NR

The events take place in the Qaymariyya Damascene neighborhood in the period between the establishment of the Hijazi railway line and the end of the Ottoman rule. It deals with the administrative details of the state and the lives of the locals through El Fawal family, who works in the textile trade.

Awlad al-Qaymariyah

2008

Sah Al Nom poster
9.0

Few Arab comedy series have left a mark quite like Sah El Nom. Written by the brilliant Nihad Qalei, who stars alongside the irreplaceable Duraid Lahham, the show gave the Arab world two of its most iconic characters — the lovable, street-smart Ghawar Tawasha and the memorable Houssni Al Bourzan. Warm, witty, and deeply rooted in Damascene folklore, it's the kind of show that never really gets old.

Sah Al Nom

1972

Ayyam Shamiyya poster
4.0

Set in one of Damascus’s neighborhoods during the late Ottoman period and the early Renaissance, depicting the customs, traditions, and social relationships that prevailed at that time.

Ayyam Shamiyya

1992

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

Ghawar's Empire poster
NR

(Ghawar) is a simple man who loves to do good, help everyone and deal with life simply, accidentally recognizes a person who feels a hidden sadness, so he approaches him and discovers that he and his lover are going through one of the severe crises that threaten them with separation, (Ghawar) decides to reconcile them and help them solve the emergency problems they are exposed to, will he succeed

Ghawar's Empire

1982

Smiling Between Tears poster
NR

Soliman is an idealistic young lawyer who is in love with Bassima. As he fights a bitter battle with his rivals, victory slips away from him as he hesitates to finish some unfinished business, causing him to lose both the battle and his sweetheart.

Smiling Between Tears

1986

Dreams of the City poster
7.0

Dib moves with his younger brother and their mother from his home town of Quneitra to Damascus after the death of his father. The children’s grandfather, who was known for his tyranny, reluctantly agrees to shelter the grieving family, and tries to force his daughter to marry again. The magic of the city of Damascus takes over the conscience. Dib, whose main concern has become discovering all the secrets of this city, is driven by his heart full of dreams, but he sees nothing in his life except humiliation and cruelty. The fragrance of childhood dies in Dib's heart, as he grows up in light of the political fluctuations that prevailed in the fifties (the end of the military dictatorship in Syria at that time, the nationalization of the Suez Canal, Nasser’s rise to power in Cairo, and Egyptian-Syrian unity in 1958), so that his rosy childhood dreams were shattered on the rocks of cruelty and violence. The city's dreams turn into a nightmare..

Dreams of the City

1984

1970s · 12 titles

Zawaj Ala El-Tareeqa El-Mahalleya poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zawaj Ala El-Tareeqa El-Mahalleya

1978

Hamido's Return poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hamido's Return

1971

The Knife poster
8.0

Syrian-Palestinian film The Knife (1971), based on Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani‘s novella All That’s Left To You; an allegorical story of Palestinian attachment to land and family, and the sorrow over their loss.

The Knife

1972

الاستعراض الكبير poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

الاستعراض الكبير

1975

Lovers on the Road poster
5.0

Based on the famous story, “Sa’ay El Bareed La Yaduq Babek Maratein” (The Postman Doesn’t Knock Twice), an adventurer escapes from danger by hiding in a small motel along the road. The motel is owned by an old, miserly man who is married to a young beautiful woman. Soon the fugitive and the wife develop a passionate relationship and plot to kill her husband. However, the old man’s son returns to spend the weekend in the motel and the plan goes off the rails.

Lovers on the Road

1977

I Die Twice And Love You poster
NR

When a simple worker who works for a service that manages houses and mansions meets a rich guy who is trying to rent his apartment, he takes advantage of the empty apartment to have a romantic evening with his wife. But the couple is surprised when the apartment's owner arrives to find them inside.

I Die Twice And Love You

1976

Wake Up poster
6.8

Due to the great success of the original TV series from 1972, this movie was created with almost identical actors and a slightly different plot. Two friends find themselves in an unexpected conflict when one of them, an employee working in a small hotel, falls for the hotel owner, but she is in love with his friend, a painter who has been staying in the same hotel for a long time, which creates jealousy and conflict between the two friends.

Wake Up

1975

No artwork available
NR

A newly married young couple live happily in poverty until a rich young man enters their lives and start seducing the young wife into his arms.

Amoot marratayn wa uhibbuk

1976

The bridge of the wicked poster
NR

A plastic artist suffers from extreme poverty. His friend convinces him to fake suicide so that he can become famous as a genius artist and sell his paintings. It turns out that this friend is trying to seize his paintings and his lover. The artist discovers his friend's betrayal and plots to expose him to everyone.

The bridge of the wicked

1971

The Iland's Devil poster
5.0

A man breaks into Nagy's house and burns classified documents. Ali Baba, Nagy's friend, tells him about the incident, and then Nagy dies in mysterious circumstances. However, all fingers point to Ali Baba as the main suspect. Meanwhile Laila arrives to uncover her cousin's murder.

The Iland's Devil

1978

Love Prank poster
NR

In Beirut, a naive college student falls for an Egyptian girl who is studying in Lebanon. As he asks his friends for advice, his friends prank him and take photos of him with the girl, which they then send to her father. The girl's father grows angry and goes to Beirut to bring his daughter back.

Love Prank

1972

The Top Prize poster
NR

The two brothers Ghassan and Nabil are wrestling champions. As Ghassan prepares to wed Laila, Nabil dedicates himself to the game, but his love for Suzy weakens his spirits. But Suzy is the sister of Samy who got paralyzed after a game with the brothers, and Suzy is his way to get revenge.

The Top Prize

1974

Series credits

Al Khawali poster
NR

The story of Nassar Ibn Oraibi, a fighter against injustice, that sheds light on the life in the Damascus neighborhood and the role of one woman who becomes responsible for the house and her four daughters in light of her husband's absence during the Hajj.

Al Khawali

2000

Salt & Sugar poster
7.0

“Salt and Sugar” is the first Syrian work shown on Syrian television in 1973 during the month of Ramadan, and its events take place inside the prison when the social worker (Sabah Al-Jazairi) visits the prison to search for the cause of the prisoners’ delinquency, and (Dhiab Mashhour) sings the song “Alamaya,” and remembers Ghawar Al-Tosha (Duraid Lahham) is his mother and longs for life outside the bars. He sings his famous songs “Lou Lou Lou” and “Oh my beloved woman, ya mo.” The artist Dhiyab Mashhour also sings “Ya Abourdin.” The artist Taroub also presented two songs, “Tik Tok,” as part of a competition organized by Hosni. Al-Borzan (Nihad Qalai) inside the prison, through a Syrian comedy act starring Duraid Lahham and Nihad Qalai, in collaboration with Yassin Bakoush, Naji Jabr, Najah Hafeez, Abdul Latif Fathi Sabah Al-Jazairi and others, and the work is directed by Khaldoun Al-Maleh.

Salt & Sugar

1973

Return of Ghawar poster
8.0

The Arab world's most beloved rogue is back. In this long-awaited return, Duraid Lahham resurrects his iconic Ghawar Tawasha — this time wrongly accused of murdering his wife and thrown behind bars for decades. Upon his release, he walks into a Syria grappling with the harsh economic realities of the nineties, determined to find his daughter and prove his innocence. Equal parts comedy and drama, it's warm, funny, and quietly heartbreaking — a homecoming worth waiting for.

Return of Ghawar

1998

Awlad al-Qaymariyah poster
NR

The events take place in the Qaymariyya Damascene neighborhood in the period between the establishment of the Hijazi railway line and the end of the Ottoman rule. It deals with the administrative details of the state and the lives of the locals through El Fawal family, who works in the textile trade.

Awlad al-Qaymariyah

2008

Sah Al Nom poster
9.0

Few Arab comedy series have left a mark quite like Sah El Nom. Written by the brilliant Nihad Qalei, who stars alongside the irreplaceable Duraid Lahham, the show gave the Arab world two of its most iconic characters — the lovable, street-smart Ghawar Tawasha and the memorable Houssni Al Bourzan. Warm, witty, and deeply rooted in Damascene folklore, it's the kind of show that never really gets old.

Sah Al Nom

1972

Ayyam Shamiyya poster
4.0

Set in one of Damascus’s neighborhoods during the late Ottoman period and the early Renaissance, depicting the customs, traditions, and social relationships that prevailed at that time.

Ayyam Shamiyya

1992

Ghawar's Pranks poster
NR

A show centred entirely around Duraid Lahham's iconic character Ghawar Tawasha. An iconic Syrian comedy series where Ghawar gets up to his classic mischief and pranks, leaning into the slapstick, street-smart humour that made the character so beloved across the Arab world.

Ghawar's Pranks

1968

Abu Antar's Diary poster
NR

A Syrian comedy series about Abu Antar, who works in copper bleaching and lives in the neighborhood, and the situation narrows after the number of his customers was limited due to the invention of new pots, and the shop is closed, and he suffers because of his family's expenses

Abu Antar's Diary

1996

Grandpa's house poster
NR

The series deals with the Al-Midan neighborhood in the year 1930 through a large family living in one house, and many issues arise among its members that appeal to viewers, and the work is not satisfied with that, but goes out to the neighborhood to notice the intertwined relations between its members, especially since Al-Midan neighborhood is one of the oldest neighborhoods of Damascus and was at that time in the heart of City.

Grandpa's house

2008

Sah Al-Noum poster
NR

A Syrian comedy drama series that revolves around (Fatoum), the owner of the (Sah Al-Nom) Hotel, where most of the events of the series take place. Both (Ghawar Al-Tosha) and (Hosni Al-Borzan) fall in love with (Fatoum), and pranks and adventures occur between them in order to win With her heart.

Sah Al-Noum

1972

Wadi Al-Mesk poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wadi Al-Mesk

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

رمضان كريم ابو عنتر

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Wayn Al-Ghalat poster
NR

A comedy that examines absurd scenarios relevant to the life in Syria.

Wayn Al-Ghalat

1979