TV Dramas

The Silk Market (Khan Al-Harir):

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It is a TV serial of 23 episodes. It was shot and telecast in the beginning of 1996 and was greatly welcomed by viewers. Its events take place in the fifties of the 20^th century in Syria where a serious political conflict had taken place and led to the union between Syria and Egypt. This serial depicts the social, economic and political life at the time. The romance and the social struggle are dominant in it.

 

Al-Thuraya (Al-Thuraya):

It is a TV serial of 33 episodes. It was telecast in the beginning of 1997 and was widely welcomed, too. It won the silver prize in the contest of the social works in Cairo’s Festival for the TV serials and programs in the same year. This serial spotlights the life of the family of a pasha of a Turkish descent both at the eve and in the morning of the moving of the Ottomans out of Syria and the coming of the French. This serial is considered an epic of love and single valor. It depicts an exceptional love story between Thuraya, the Pasha’s daughter, and an anti-Turkish highwayman. Besides, it depicts the beginning of the enlightenment in the Syrian society.

 

The Silk Market (Part II):

It is a TV serial of 25 episodes. It was produced by the Orbit Satellite Channel, was telecast in 1998 and was widely welcomed, too. Here we follow up the situations in Syria at the time of the Syrian-Egyptian union and its impact on the destiny of the characters we had known in the first part. The events continue up to the day of separation from Egypt and the break up of the unity. This serial daringly tries to find out the reason of the separation and spotting those responsible for it. It had raised a wide controversy among the official, educational and popular circles. These three serials were directed by Haytham Hakky

 

The First Gleam Of Dawn (AL Khait AL Abiadh):

This series is a social and political drama of 28 episodes. It was telecasted in many Arab-speaking TV stations in the year 2004.

It tells the true story of the media, which is totally controlled and supervised by the government, and the government’s endeavors to promote entertainment and comics programs among TV program makers whilst it is trying to ban programs that criticize corruption and mismanagement.

 

  The Children-Drama

The Puzzle (Al-Lughz):

A serial of five episodes that was telecast in 1994 and won the bronze prize in the International Cairo’s Festival for the films of 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 effect of such detective stories and suspect of two strange persons thinking they are criminals. They pursue these two persons and set traps for them but they finally come to the conclusion that both persons are innocent. This serials was directed by Layaly Bader

 

Tammam’s case (Qadiyat Tammam):

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 pfrom divorce after the mutual understanding between them had become impossible. He tries his best and makes use of all means to do that. He finally succeeds only when he uses a video camera and films their confessions solely. It was directed by Mouhamad Sheikh Najeeb