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

Akkash is a nationalist resistance fighter against Ottoman rule in Syria. Thuraya, the daughter of the wealthy Turkish aristocrat Ismail Pasha, falls in love with him, and he loves her in return. Determined to be with him, she is willing to sacrifice everything, including her family and privileged position in society.

At a Damascus girls' high school, the school counsellor Hanan is the quiet centre of everyone's storms — helping teenagers navigate family pressure, social expectations and the bruising complexities of adolescence, while quietly managing the unravelling of her own marriage. Each student carries a different wound; each episode peels back another layer. A warm, perceptive Syrian drama about the hidden costs of growing up female in Arab society. Directed by Rasha Sharbatji, starring Salma Al-Masri and Qusay Khouli.

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.

Rijal 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.

Matar disappears under mysterious circumstances for 20 years, during which everyone has believed he had died a martyr. However, he returns in a new form and builds a financial empire amidst the mystery surrounding the source of his wealth. Using the spider's method, he tightens his grip on everyone and exploits them to achieve his goals of doubling his wealth and taking revenge on his past friends.

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

Akkash is a nationalist resistance fighter against Ottoman rule in Syria. Thuraya, the daughter of the wealthy Turkish aristocrat Ismail Pasha, falls in love with him, and he loves her in return. Determined to be with him, she is willing to sacrifice everything, including her family and privileged position in society.

At a Damascus girls' high school, the school counsellor Hanan is the quiet centre of everyone's storms — helping teenagers navigate family pressure, social expectations and the bruising complexities of adolescence, while quietly managing the unravelling of her own marriage. Each student carries a different wound; each episode peels back another layer. A warm, perceptive Syrian drama about the hidden costs of growing up female in Arab society. Directed by Rasha Sharbatji, starring Salma Al-Masri and Qusay Khouli.

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.

Rijal 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.

Matar disappears under mysterious circumstances for 20 years, during which everyone has believed he had died a martyr. However, he returns in a new form and builds a financial empire amidst the mystery surrounding the source of his wealth. Using the spider's method, he tightens his grip on everyone and exploits them to achieve his goals of doubling his wealth and taking revenge on his past friends.

The 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.

A group of students navigate the final years of secondary school — first loves, family pressures, friendship rivalries and the weight of uncertain futures. A second season follows them into adulthood ten years later, showing who they became and what life did to their dreams. A warm, relatable Syrian youth drama spanning 3 seasons from 2011 to 2020, featuring Yamen Hajali and Moatasem Al-Nahar in early roles.

The 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.

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.

Having spent most of her 20s taking care of her sick mother and her family's household, a sexually repressed woman elopes and has to face the hypocrisies of middle eastern society.

Nader is lost between his parents, who are experiencing a struggle between love and hate, Lulia, who is persecuted by her stepmother, Dalal, whose hatred for her stepdaughter reaches the point of attempting murder. Dalal considers Lulia the reason for her unhappiness, but when Lulia leaves her life, she discovers her mistake. Tahseen her husband can only run away from problems and cannot solve any of them.

Four brothers, each living a life filled with fear and isolation: Akram (Abdel Moneim Amayri), the eldest brother, is an employee who appears committed and reserved, but in reality suffers from a sexual complex that causes him to fail in his repeated attempts to get engaged; As for Lamis (Caresse Bashar), she is a teacher involved in a forbidden love affair with her friend’s husband; she works to ruin their lives so she can be alone with her lover. As for Hosam (Rami Hanna), is a computer teacher who falls in love with Najwa, a relationship that changes his negative view of women. Basma (Maysoun Abu Asaad), a pharmacist searching for rational love, gets involved with Ghassan (Khaled Al-Qish), only to discover later that he is a deceiver; she breaks up with him and gets involved with someone else who is just as bad as he is. How will things end for these siblings? And will love return to set their lives back on track?

In 1918 Damascus, after the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and before the French colonization of the country, six Damascene neighborhoods decide to choose one head to rule over them, only for clashes over the throne to crystalize and extend.

During the period of the French occupation of Syria, the events of the series revolve around As'ad AlWarraq, an orphan, illiterate, poor young man who is pushed by circumstances between various paradoxes, between false accusations and the injustice of his neighborhood people towards him.

A socio-political series which highlights the horrific events that accompanied Operation “Defensive Shield” in 2002 when the Israeli army invaded Palestinian cities

Life returns to a building abandoned after the Lebanese Civil War when it becomes a temporary haven for Syrian refugees, as war ravages their homeland.

Jalal is imprisoned on trumped-up political charges. As he breaks out of prison and crosses the Lebanese borders, he meets his Palestinian friend, Qassem, who is a member of the resistance against the Israelis. Jalal's wife gets the court to grant her divorce in absentia to marry Colonel Nazem.

كوميديا لطيفة هادفة تصوّر معاناة أسرة كبيرة العدد لحالة بائسة من الفقر الثقيل الذي يجعل الأخ الأكبر يترك المدرسة ليشتغل ويُعيل والدته وإخوته السبع حتى يتخرجوا ويتزوجوا. ثم يكتشف أنه قد بلغ الأربعينات وأن قطار العمر قد فاته، وأنه قد خسر قصّة حب عمَّرتْ 15 سنة. A charming, meaningful comedy depicting the struggles of a large family living in abject poverty. The eldest brother drops out of school to work and support his mother and seven siblings, ensuring they all graduate and get married. Eventually, he realizes he has reached his forties—having let life pass him by—and has lost a romance that spanned fifteen years.

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.

The Halaby family works in trade. When the father decides to write all his property over to one of his sons, the two brothers clash, until the eldest brother falls ill, and his younger son is forced to give up his ambition to take care of their business.

A Syrian social drama series that sheds light on a neighborhood in one of the slums in the vicinity of Damascus, around a poor family consisting of a mother and her four children, who strive to meet their needs and achieve their ambitions with the tools available to them, while focusing on solving future problems at the time, leaving them to chance, luck, mischief, whim, or influence.

The series deals with social stories of several different characters who carry the same obsessions, fears, and concerns, and then their paths intersect in a way that makes them unite with each other to overcome those fears.

The issues of contemporary, middle-class Syrian families through four female figures who serve as archetypes representing religious extremism, social chaos, and the wide gap between people's aspirations and their potential.

The series deals with social life and raises many important issues that the Arab society suffers from, such as authoritarianism, social pressures. It also presents the negatives and positives in a dramatic comic style.

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Fadeela 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.

After her parents get divorced, Ishtar goes to live with her grandmother. When her grandmother passes away, she leaves the house to Ishtar , but her boyfriend tricks her into writing it over to him. She then goes to her aunt, who introduces her to the world of art through her voice.

The series monitors the social, political and cultural life in Syria from the period 1932 to 1936, where the events take place in two neighboring areas: the city of Aleppo, and a supposed rural area called Kom alHajar.

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 series revolves around the exploitation of women by men in society, through the stories of three friends—Rateb, Wahib, and Abu Adnan—who are involved in illegal activities, and the story of Zuhair, who exploits runaway girls in immoral activities.

The events of the work take place in the city of Aleppo in the early 1950s. The work deals with the issue of disagreement between enlightened thought and puritan thought, between two brothers because of a beautiful love story within the framework of Aleppo customs and traditions in that period.

Men Under the Fez is a Syrian ensemble drama that explores the quiet gap between public virtue and private behaviour. Set in a society where educated, “progressive” men speak fluently about equality and modern values, the series gradually reveals the contradictions in their personal lives — and the emotional cost carried by the women closest to them. Through intersecting stories of marriages, desire, hypocrisy and self-deception, it offers a sharp, often uncomfortable portrait of everyday patriarchy. Directed by Hisham Sharbatji, starring Khaled Taja and Karess Bashar.

A selection of stories for children that covers notions of morality and fairness between humans through a series of legendary tales of Arab and people from around the world.

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