TV Dramas
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A TV serial of 23 episodes first telecast in 1996 and immensely
popular with viewers. Its events take place in the 1950s in Syria, a
time of serious political tensions which led to the short-lived
union between Syria and Egypt. It depicts the social, economic and
political life at the time through the lives of people connected to
the Aleppo silk market, home of the famous textile trade.
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The Silk Market (Part II):
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A TV serial of 25 episodes produced by the Orbit Satellite Channel
and telecast in 1998, which was widely welcomed and as popular as
the first series. It follows up the situation in Syria at the time
of the Syrian-Egyptian union and its impact on the destiny of the
characters introduced in the first series. The events continue up to
the day of separation from Egypt and the breakup of the union. This
serial explores the reason for the separation and identifies those
responsible for it. Its screening inspired controversy and debate in
official, academic and wider public circles.
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The full series has been screened throughout the Middle East (where
it still being repeated many years later) as well as in Germany and
in Australia where it was subtitled in English and broadcast twice
by SBS Televison.
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- Al-Thuraya
(Al-Thuraya):
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A
serial of 33 episodes telecast in the beginning of 1997. It was
widely acclaimed, winning a silver prize in the Cairo Festival for
TV serials and programs the same year. The story spotlights the life
of the family of a pasha of Turkish descent both at the eve and the
morning of the Ottomans’ move out of Syria and the coming of the
French. An epic of love and individual courage, it depicts an
exceptional love story between Thuraya, the Pasha’s daughter, and an
anti-Turkish highwayman who sympathises with the poor. It also
depicts the beginning of cultural and political enlightenment in
Syrian society.
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The First Gleam Of Dawn (AL Khait
AL Abiadh):
A social and political drama of 28 episodes, telecast by many
Arab-speaking TV stations in 2004. It tells the true story of the media
which is totally controlled and supervised by the government. It
depicts
the government’s endeavours to promote entertainment and comedy programs
among TV program makers while trying to ban programs that criticize
corruption and mismanagement.These four drama series were directed by Haytham Hakky
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The Life of Kahlil Gibran
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The first TV series about the early life of Kahlil Gibran, the
Lebanese-born writer and painter born in 1883. The 30-part series was
broadcast throughout the Middle East in 2008. An important figure in
Arab literature, Gibran’s career in America which included his work
The Prophet made him one of the most famous writers in western
popular culture. Directed by Fardos Atassi.
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Dramas for children
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A serial of five episodes that was telecast in 1994 and won the
bronze prize in the
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International Cairo’s Festival of films for
children in 1995. It is a story of three children in an elementary
school who are fond of reading detective stories. They fall under
the spell of these stories and suspect two strange persons of being
criminals. They pursue these two persons and set traps for them but
they finally come to the conclusion that both persons are innocent.
This serial was directed by Layaly Bader
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- Tammam’s
case (Qadiyat Tammam):
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It is a serial of eight episodes that was telecast in 1999 and was
transformed to an 80-minute movie. It is the story of a child who
tries to prevent his parents from getting divorced after the mutual
understanding between them had become impossible. He tries his best
and makes use of all means to achieve his aim. He finally succeeds
only when he uses a video camera and films their individual
admissions of love for each other. It was directed by Mouhamad
Sheikh Najeeb