Esam Abjy

Acting

Esam Abjy

Born — Died

1941-02-09 — 2014-11-24

Place of birth

Damascus, Syria

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

A Syrian actor, born in the Al-Muhajireen neighborhood of the Syrian capital Damascus on February 9, 1941. He began his artistic career in the 1960s while working with the National Theater troupe alongside the late Rafik Al-Suba’i, after being invited by the then Minister of Information, Mr. Youssef Shuqra, who asked them to form the Dramatic Arts Troupe affiliated with television. After the unification of Egypt and Syria and the merging of the Ministries of Information and Culture, he transitioned into theater. Among his most notable works are the TV series Awdat Ghawar (The Return of Ghawar) and Bab Al-Hara, along with many other well-known series. He participated as an actor in numerous…

Known for

Bab Al-Hara poster
7.5

A modern classic of Arab television. A social drama set in the 1920s in Damascus- It highlights Damascene life, noble values, and ancient customs and traditions represented by the people of Harat al-Dabeh who fled to Harat al-Salihiyah after the French bombed Harat al-Dabeh. The events take place after the gold is stolen from the house of the cloth merchant Abu Ibrahim, and the guard Abu al-Samu is killed. The men of the neighborhood try to find the thief.

Bab Al-Hara

2006

They Asked Me poster
NR

They Asked Me is an entertainment program and contains a variety of useful paragraphs and provides information and facts in a fun and interesting narrative way, presented in the nineties of the last century, which is presented by the distinguished media Sherif Alami, They Asked Me is a well-known and distinctive program in Jordan, ancient and modern, and it has a great herbal "

They Asked Me

2000

Maraya 2003 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maraya 2003

2003

Holding Back Tears poster
NR

The series examines the change in the composition of the Syrian family, through the life of a number of Damascene families that are connected by a number of intertwining relationships, as love blossoms between the lawyer Riyad El Emary and the interior designer Riad El Merady.

Holding Back Tears

2005

Brothers of the Soil poster
NR

The series revolves around the Arab Revolt that broke out in Syria against the Ottoman occupation that had ruled the country for four centuries.

Brothers of the Soil

1996

Diaries of a General Manager poster
7.0

A journalist working in the same newspaper as her husband, and intellectual conflict arises between them because of the differences between the nature of men and women. The series shows the relationship between the spouses, revealing many attitudes of the “Eastern Man”.

Diaries of a General Manager

1995

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

1970s · 4 titles

Kafr Kassem poster
6.7

On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafr Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today as the massacre of “Kafr Kassem”.

Kafr Kassem

1977

Another Face of Love poster
NR

A newly graduated young doctor has hopes of making his way steadily in his country, or of traveling to another country in order to achieve his dreams. In the village, he wakes up from his rosy dream he lived before he traveled to a harsh reality, after he is accused of murder.

Another Face of Love

1973

Al-Yazerli poster
6.0

The Yazerli is the foreman who provides work to day laborers. The film’s poetic, non-narrative structure simulates the fractured thoughts of a young boy who is forced to leave school and find work on the docks. Using minimal dialogue but evocative music and sounds, separate vignettes introduce characters the boy encounters in a single workday. The filmmaker explores the child’s vivid imaginary world while tangibly conveying the physical harshness and repressed sexuality of a life spent in poverty and manual labor. Based on a novella by Hanna Mina.

Al-Yazerli

1974

Jungle of Wolves poster
NR

With the housing crisis worsening and cement blocks constantly creeping up to swallow old houses with their inhabitants, a jungle of wolves that live in a fierce world lies behind the cement jungle. As a young journalist and his beautiful wife clash with what they think is the wolf of the jungle, it turns out that this wolf is only one of several wolves in a whole jungle of wolves.

Jungle of Wolves

1977

Series credits

Bab Al-Hara poster
7.5

A modern classic of Arab television. A social drama set in the 1920s in Damascus- It highlights Damascene life, noble values, and ancient customs and traditions represented by the people of Harat al-Dabeh who fled to Harat al-Salihiyah after the French bombed Harat al-Dabeh. The events take place after the gold is stolen from the house of the cloth merchant Abu Ibrahim, and the guard Abu al-Samu is killed. The men of the neighborhood try to find the thief.

Bab Al-Hara

2006

They Asked Me poster
NR

They Asked Me is an entertainment program and contains a variety of useful paragraphs and provides information and facts in a fun and interesting narrative way, presented in the nineties of the last century, which is presented by the distinguished media Sherif Alami, They Asked Me is a well-known and distinctive program in Jordan, ancient and modern, and it has a great herbal "

They Asked Me

2000

Maraya 2003 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maraya 2003

2003

Holding Back Tears poster
NR

The series examines the change in the composition of the Syrian family, through the life of a number of Damascene families that are connected by a number of intertwining relationships, as love blossoms between the lawyer Riyad El Emary and the interior designer Riad El Merady.

Holding Back Tears

2005

Brothers of the Soil poster
NR

The series revolves around the Arab Revolt that broke out in Syria against the Ottoman occupation that had ruled the country for four centuries.

Brothers of the Soil

1996

Diaries of a General Manager poster
7.0

A journalist working in the same newspaper as her husband, and intellectual conflict arises between them because of the differences between the nature of men and women. The series shows the relationship between the spouses, revealing many attitudes of the “Eastern Man”.

Diaries of a General Manager

1995

Layali Al-Salehiya poster
6.4

A man entrusts Abu Al Makhraz with a huge sum of money and disappears. When Abu Al Makhraz dies, his family finds themselves pitted against his relatives.

Layali Al-Salehiya

2004

Maraya 2000 poster
NR

A multi-episode satirical comedy series that presents various stories and anecdotes in a satirical and mocking style, critiquing social and political conditions.

Maraya 2000

1999

Men and women poster
NR

The series explores the lives of ordinary people in Syrian society navigating personal struggles, societal conflicts, and the gap between dreams and reality

Men and women

2005

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

The End of a Brave Man poster
8.0

Mufid the monster, the naughty teenager, did not find anyone who knew how to deal with him properly, so he did not discover anyone around him and develop the good qualities that Mufid was distinguished for. The society in which he lived, starting from the harsh father at home, to the ignorant and arrogant teacher at school, to the mukhtar who punished him for cutting off the tail of Abboud's donkey... All of these were the cause of Mufid's loss and his premature end. As a result of this treatment, Mufeed could not bear to stay even for a single minute in the farm, so he ran away and decided never to return to this farm that caused him pain and persecuted him.

The End of a Brave Man

1994

Migration of Hearts to Hearts poster
NR

Set in the town of Al-Rukniya in the early 1930s, the work explores the conflict between Bedouin and urban communities, the impact of World War II on Syrian politics, the outbreak of the Great Syrian Revolution, and the subsequent withdrawal of the French occupation from the country. The work also highlights the opportunists who continue to spread colonialist ideas, in contrast to the strength and unity of the people as they confront tyranny despite the conspiracies plotted against them.

Migration of Hearts to Hearts

1991

Funny Stories Of Abu Dollama poster
NR

A historical comedy series produced in 1993 that talks about one of the famous Arab jokers, Abu Dalama, and tells a number of stories and jokes that took place during the era of

Funny Stories Of Abu Dollama

1993

اختفاء رجل poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

اختفاء رجل

1992

The Slums poster
NR

In one of the slums, a group of intertwined stories revolve around residents whose movement may extend outside this neighborhood due to work or study, and their fates intersect with the paths of some characters from other neighborhoods of the city.

The Slums

2009

5 Stars Family poster
NR

The story revolves around the family of Umm Ahmed Bilalish who lives in one of the old Damascene neighborhoods. When Farhan proposes to marry Samar, her mother reluctantly agrees. The events start taking a comic twist when the family wins the lottery and their social status changes.

5 Stars Family

1994

6 Stars Family poster
NR

When Fardous, Gamil's mother, gets an apartment from a film production company as compensation for mistakenly using her name in a movie, her life changes completely as she becomes a reputable businesswoman and lives with her son and daughter, as well as their spouses, in the apartment.

6 Stars Family

1997

Aldighri poster
10.0

AlDaghari is a Syrian social comedy series, based on the story of Turkish writer Aziz Nesin, produced by Syrian Arab Television in 1992, directed by Haitham Haqqi. It tells the story of a fraudulent person who exploits the gullibility of the villagers.

Aldighri

1992

No artwork available
NR

The stingy man "Fathi" marries "Su'aad" after the death of his first wife, he rents rooms of his house and has permanent differences between his family members and him due to his stinginess within a comedy mold. The story revolves around a lost bag that roams between several characters in a humorous way, and affects the lives of each of them in a surprising way. The plot depends on the consequences of losing and recovering the case, which creates a range of comedic situations and paradoxical situations that put the characters in sometimes embarrassing situations, and sometimes in funny situations.

The Lost Case

1996

The Five poster
NR

Five young people from different regions and cultural and social backgrounds gather to live in one rented house to study at the university, where everyday several paradoxes and comedic adventures happen with the neighbors and the owner of the house.

The Five

2005

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

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

Abu El-Hana's Dreams poster
NR

The series deals with the life of the simple man, Abu Al-Hana, who is constantly exposed to unenviable situations, and grows when he begins to search for solutions to them, for he is a simple and kind-hearted person, but he has self-confidence that makes his wife Umm al-Khair always obey him, and he is a ninth-degree employee in a government department.

Abu El-Hana's Dreams

1996

No artwork available
NR

The events of the series revolve around Bahloul (Issam Suleiman), a man who constantly relies on others rather than on himself. Circumstances force him to leave his village and move to another. After arriving in this new village, the residents believe that Bahloul is a very brave and powerful man. The villagers are overjoyed at his arrival, hoping he will save them from the wolf that attacks the village and threatens the lives of its people and their livestock.

Bahloul the Brave

1990

What Did We Say poster
NR

After Marwan and Nada get married, the couple moves into a building full of residents and little peace due to the endless pranks of Sankouh, the rooftop tenant. Each day, the building's neighbors find themselves in a new comedic story.

What Did We Say

2001

عيلة أكابر poster
NR

In a social drama setting, the series tells the story of a very poor family whose circumstances mysteriously change. New developments unfold for the family as they interact with society and experience personal transformations, especially after they begin to consider themselves part of the wealthy class.

عيلة أكابر

1998

No artwork available
NR

A social comedy series starring Mohammed Al-Shammat, Samia Al-Jazairi, Rafi Wahbi, Nizar Abu Hajar, Hossam Eid, Issam Abba Ji and Mohammed Qanou. A Syrian production directed by Imad Seif Al-Din and written by Wafiq Al-Zaim

Public Auction

1999

Esh almajanin poster
NR

The series tells the story of a man who owns a car repair shop but never gets any customers. One day, a woman comes to him, and he learns that she owns a large house where she lives alone, while her son lives at his uncle’s house with his wife. The shop owner becomes greedy and decides to marry her.

Esh almajanin

2001