
Acting
Ali Krayyem
Born
1949-09-02 (77)
Place of birth
Syria
Known for
Acting
Credits
36 titles
A Syrian actor, born in Damascus. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy. The beginning of his career was in the 1980s when he appeared in several works, most notably the series Citrus Tree (1989). He made his cinematic debut in 1993 in the films Echoes of Sides, as well as Something Is Burning. His TV credits include A Minister's Decision (2023), The Mill of Evil (2012), and The Neighborhood's Gate S1 (2006).
Known for
7.5A 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
9.7Rijal Al-Izz — Men of Honor — is a 2011 Syrian Damascene period drama set in the Saroujeh neighborhood of Damascus during the French occupation of the 1930s. The series follows Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shami, a wrongfully accused man who escapes a death sentence and transforms into a resistance fighter, striking fear into the French occupiers while navigating betrayal and injustice within his own community. Starring Rashid Assaf and Qusai Khouli.
Rijal Al-Izz
2011
NREssam and Ragaa experience unsolvable problems and disputes over one of Essam's colleagues. These disputes increase to affect their children negatively over time.
Sons of Oppression
2002
Since her childhood, Hassiba has lived in suffering with her father because of the French occupation of Syria, as she moves with him from one place to another in search of security. She continues her struggle journey when she grows up and takes the path of resistance against the occupiers.
Hasiba
2006
NRKnown all his life as "the dead woman's son," Shams has never had much — until a staggering revelation turns his world upside down: he is the sole heir to a powerful tycoon's empire. But the inheritance comes with a dangerous condition. To claim his rightful identity and fortune, he must track down the four siblings his father coldly erased from existence. The clock is ticking, the stakes are lethal, and failure isn't just costly — it's a death sentence.
With Five Souls
2026
7.0The series tackles a number of negative contemporary social phenomena, shedding light on the challenges encountered by young people, like violence against children, poverty, homelessness, begging, slave trade, motherhood, family disintegration, and honor crimes.
Small Hearts
2009
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
8.0A married couple are leading a monotonous life after the husband's retirement and the son's migration. Suddenly, a teenage young man storms into their home.
The Visit
2020
NRThe film carries within it a dose of love, hope and optimism, in addition to the human relationships that connect the inhabitants of the old city with each other. I believe that relationships based on love are one of the reasons for the continuation of this city until now. The film is based on the concept of the word “love”, not love between a young man and a young woman, but rather love for things, people, place, profession and work.
A Tale in Damascus
2022
2000s · 2 titles
4.8A Movie For Television dealing and exercising thoughts of Men Controlled Societies which are somehow similar in the east and west both. The movie shows how a woman is treated unfair just because her husband wanted a baby boy and she delivered 4 daughters. From sunrise to sunset, this one-day-actions movies follows the nerve pressed Aziza with all the unexpected accidents.
Aziza
2009
NRBased on the idea of reincarnation, the work tells the story of Ahed, a young man who works in the pottery industry and lives in a village in northern Palestine with his family, where he is haunted by obsessions and memories from another life in another place.
ID
2007
Series credits
7.5A 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
7.5A 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
9.7Rijal Al-Izz — Men of Honor — is a 2011 Syrian Damascene period drama set in the Saroujeh neighborhood of Damascus during the French occupation of the 1930s. The series follows Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shami, a wrongfully accused man who escapes a death sentence and transforms into a resistance fighter, striking fear into the French occupiers while navigating betrayal and injustice within his own community. Starring Rashid Assaf and Qusai Khouli.
Rijal Al-Izz
2011
NREssam and Ragaa experience unsolvable problems and disputes over one of Essam's colleagues. These disputes increase to affect their children negatively over time.
Sons of Oppression
2002
Since her childhood, Hassiba has lived in suffering with her father because of the French occupation of Syria, as she moves with him from one place to another in search of security. She continues her struggle journey when she grows up and takes the path of resistance against the occupiers.
Hasiba
2006
NRKnown all his life as "the dead woman's son," Shams has never had much — until a staggering revelation turns his world upside down: he is the sole heir to a powerful tycoon's empire. But the inheritance comes with a dangerous condition. To claim his rightful identity and fortune, he must track down the four siblings his father coldly erased from existence. The clock is ticking, the stakes are lethal, and failure isn't just costly — it's a death sentence.
With Five Souls
2026
7.0The series tackles a number of negative contemporary social phenomena, shedding light on the challenges encountered by young people, like violence against children, poverty, homelessness, begging, slave trade, motherhood, family disintegration, and honor crimes.
Small Hearts
2009
NRThe show tells the story of a playwright, Jalal, who holds secular views, and his close friendship with Michel, his childhood friend. Michel initially worked as a lawyer but later transitioned to journalism, founding his own magazine in which he boldly addresses societal issues, drawing significant criticism. Additionally, the narrative explores themes of separating religion from civil and political life through a love story between a man and a woman from different faiths: Jalal (a Muslim) and Hanan (a Christian). Their relationship culminates in a secret marriage, which lasts until Jalal’s sudden passing. Throughout the story, the work focuses on two major issues related to secularism: the demand for a civil personal status law that permits civil marriage, and the call for a secular education system that allows students the freedom to seek their own truths instead of being indoctrinated with a predetermined "absolute truth." It also tackles issues of political and social corruption.
ليس سراباً
2008
NRتدور أحداث المسلسل في فترة الأربعينيات من القرن الماضي حول صراع محتدم ينشأ بعد خروج (نوري) من السجن وتمركزه في حارة دمشقية تشهد اغتيال الطبيب ذائع الصيت "عبد الرحمن الشهبندر" واختفاء أحد وجهاء الحارة، حيث يحاول "نوري" كشف الألغاز وسط صراعات على النفوذ والطمع والحب. Set in the 1940s, the series revolves around a fierce conflict that erupts after Nuri is released from prison and settles in a Damascene neighborhood where the renowned doctor “Abdul Rahman al-Shahbandar” is assassinated and the disappearance of one of the neighborhood’s prominent figures. “Nouri” attempts to unravel these mysteries amid conflicts over power, greed, and love.
My Family's House
2024
10.0Alaa Al-Din Zeibak, a man from a well-off family, has Down syndrome, and he crosses paths with Badr, a man of a humble origin, who has autism spectrum disorder. As they interact, several situations ensue, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the differently-abled people.
Behind the Sun
2010
NRA social drama about the Syrian society and the corruption that runs rampant across all of its different classes, as well as exploring some ideals like love, integrity, and honesty.
The Key
2012
NRThe 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
NR“In the Shade of Jasmine” is a cultural and artistic Ramadan program broadcast by Al Araby 2 from Damascus. It brings together a group of intellectuals and artists to discuss social and cultural issues, with a focus on the role of creativity in rebuilding cultural identity. The program hosts prominent figures and allows young people to express their aspirations.
In the Shade of Jasmine
2025
9.0Life returns to a building abandoned after the Lebanese Civil War when it becomes a temporary haven for Syrian refugees, as war ravages their homeland.
We'll Meet Tomorrow
2015
6.0A family returns from a long trip, carrying a baby girl whom everyone assumes is their daughter, before the truth is revealed. Then the head of the family appears, refusing the idea of adoption despite his wife's insistence.
Shams Al Aseel
2026
NRThe events revolve around the Levantine environment and the social problems that permeate it, during the period of the French occupation of the country.
Tahoun Al-Shar
2012
NRThrough separate episodes, the series deals with several different stories and tales with political and social dimensions in a satirical comedic style.
Maraya 2013
2013
NRFadeela tries to move on after the death of her husband and son in an accident, while Amjad, her son, tries to help her. Amjad meets by chance his childhood sweetheart, Azza, in his new job. A love story between Azza and Amjad, whose hopes and efforts are united to make a happy family. But their love faces unexpected obstacles which turns into an inescapable parting story.
Forgiveness
2011
NRThe life and suffering of seven girlfriends in our modern society, as each has her own demands and hopes, from searching for work, to achieving self-fulfillment, human dignity, and balanced living psychologically and socially.
Roses in salty soil
2002
NRAfter their step-mother humiliates them and exposes their immoral past, sisters Warda and Shamiya kill and bury Aziza in their house, and all hell breaks loose.
Warda Shamya
2017
NRThe plot revolves around a Jordanian woman who owns a house in Damascus and plans to sell it, but her Syrian neighbor seeks to thwart her plan through a series of funny events and sudden situations.
Either Me or Her
2025
NRWhen an extremely wealthy family loses everything, the patriarch is forced to sell all his properties to pay off his debts to the merchants. He pushes his family to take on mundane tasks like washing carpets and cleaning vegetables to make ends meet.
My Family and I
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
النصية
1998
NRA businesswoman seeks to exploit some girls to achieve her personal interests by having them work as dancers and forcing them to do whatever she asks, whatever it is, and the stories of these women come across each other.
The Girlfriends (The Cats)
2024
NRThe 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
7.0A gold salesman is a professional in his field where he deals with plenty of women and takes advantage of them along the way, resulting in unpleasant consequences.
Golden Chains
2019
8.0Areen Al Zi'ab follows a powerful family whose world unravels after a young woman’s disappearance. As secrets surface, rivalries intensify and alliances shift. Blackmail, hidden crimes, and personal vendettas collide, pulling multiple characters into a tense web of suspicion, betrayal, and revenge.
Wolf's den
2026
NRThe story follows Sharif Al-Labadi (played by Bassam Kousa), a successful engineer who marries Ghada (Samar Sami). Ghada is the ex-wife of another engineer and talented novelist, Maher Taha (Jamal Soliman). Over time, Sharif develops an intense, destructive obsession with Maher. Feeling deeply inferior, he starts compulsively imitating Maher's way of thinking, lifestyle, and literary interests in an attempt to become a carbon copy of him—only to eventually discover that his idol is fraudulent.
Layl Al-Khaefeen
1994
NRA social drama that shows how contradictory qualities can bring people together, and how the Levantine society witnesses manifestations of love, hatred, violence, possessiveness and domineering control of the weak. But a reckoning is coming for everyone
Jarh Al Ward
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
حريم الشاويش
2017
NRThe 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

