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Bwabet El‑Halawani brings to life the human stories behind Egypt’s transformation during the Suez Canal era. Through craftsmen, families, and dreamers caught in political and social upheaval, the series blends history with personal struggle, showing how ambition, sacrifice, and resilience shaped a defining moment in Egypt’s past.
Bwabet El‑Halawani brings to life the human stories behind Egypt’s transformation during the Suez Canal era. Through craftsmen, families, and dreamers caught in political and social upheaval, the series blends history with personal struggle, showing how ambition, sacrifice, and resilience shaped a defining moment in Egypt’s past.
Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.
Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.
The series revolves around the struggle for money, and the fierce battles of two families and their differences because of a conflict over inheritance, and how the parties will ignore the blood ties for wealth.
Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
Mahmoud is the head of Al-Shorbagy family. He runs into his childhood friend, Samy Sharkas, who returns from America and lavishes Mahmoud’s family with gifts. Samy wants to set up investment projects in Egypt, and Mahmoud works with him, but he's unaware that Samy is hiding a different agenda.
The story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife (Safiya al-Omari), rejects it, suggesting to send someone else to go instead. So the Mayor persuaded a poor father named Abdul-Muqeem (Izzat al-Alayli) to send his only son Masrey instead.
Rawya and her husband Hamdi get separated and she goes with her daughter to live in her father's home while Hamdi marries the young Mervat. Rawya gets a job as a secretary in a newspaper and meets Tarek, the editor-in-chief, and they feel attracted to each other.
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Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
History professor Mahmoud worries about the future of the country after he read a book that points to a dark future in which monopolies increase and the economic balance changes, while his friend, the scientist and international expert Burhan, takes a selfish position in which he only cares about his interests and public relations. Then they find themselves in the time of the Mamluks.
A young Egyptian man travels with his family to Hurghada on a work trip, where he works with foreign tourists. There, he meets a woman with an Egyptian father and an American mother. Despite his family's objections, he falls in love and marries her after she becomes pregnant. However, their marriage soon faces challenges as cultural differences emerge—he is deeply rooted in Upper Egyptian traditions, while she embraces a modern American lifestyle.
The Egyptian intelligence service uses the Egyptian young man Akram, who is renowned for his genius in the field of aeronautical engineering. In order to study and know the secrets of the "Al Kafir" plane, the intelligence officer, General Yehya Iham Akram, is trying to go to France to repair the Concorde. Akram convince them at the airport that he arrived from Rome wrong but that the Israeli intelligence prepares him easy prey and recruit him after being brutally tortured, and his coach Margo, who is in love with him, and turns Margo on her device and decide to secede, and trial, is handed over to others, and Akram Aflat of Mossad men , And hijack the plane Alkafir and then destroy it and jump Parachute to be picked up by the Egyptian intelligence.
When Sherif returns from abroad, he befriends a group of unemployed junkies, including a girl whose father lives in Kuwait and sends her a lot of money, a young man who went mad because of drugs, and the son of a a major general who is separated from his wife.
The events of the series take place in the first half of the twentieth century through the family of Hajj Yunus al-Baqri, whose son, Ali, the struggling young man, lives with him, and Safiya lives with his daughters and their evil husbands. Yunus suffers from poverty and what the occupation does.
Shukry becomes a fraudster after prison and gets involved in a smuggling operation that attracts police attention.
Colonel Suleiman Al-Dahshan confronts the gang of pursuers led by Jaber. Suleiman also devises a plan to arrest Adel, Jaber's nephew, who is accused of killing Saeed, for revenge, even though Adel is innocent and fails to prove his innocence. Adel tries to convince his uncle to stop committing crimes.
In 1969, a group of Egyptian frogmen target and destroy two Israeli vessels in the port of Eilat during the War of Attrition.
Samia rebels against her unemployed husband until she gets a divorce, and starts dreaming of living outside the poor neighborhood into a rich life. She works for a rich man, and tries to seduce his son Sherif to marry her. But when she fails, she transfers the game to his unmarried uncle.
In one of the rural areas of Upper Egypt, the "Najawi" works on a ferry owned by the people to transport the people between the two banks of the river with symbolic reward, to get love and respect for everyone despite his poverty and satisfaction with the little he earns, and exchange love with the beautiful village "Saadia" So Saadia's family objected to the marriage of their daughter Najawi to his poverty
Hamdy and Fathy were partners in a gang. Fathy is sentenced to prison, while Hamdy becomes a businessman, gets married and settles down, until Fathy is released from prison and asks him to resume their criminal activity.
The story of Mayor Abdul Razek al-Sharshabi (Omar al-Sharif) when his younger son, Tawfiq (Khalid al-Nabawi) is called for army recruitment, his wife (Safiya al-Omari), rejects it, suggesting to send someone else to go instead. So the Mayor persuaded a poor father named Abdul-Muqeem (Izzat al-Alayli) to send his only son Masrey instead.
Hatim is a businessman working in the field of contracting and building housing. He finds himself accused in a public opinion case, which is the collapse of the buildings he built. He discovers that his men who help him did this without him noticing. A confrontation occurs with his brother, and he kills his brother.
Businessman Hamdi decides to take revenge on Abdel Hamid, Mustafa and Badr for their testimony against his brother Saeed, who is proven guilty of murder and theft and is executed. Hamdi suspects them because of their sudden wealth, and takes advantage of their lack of knowledge of him as he was abroad, and takes revenge on each of them with a number of plans.
Ref'at is a judge who is ruling on an important case that witnesses a lot of security interference. Rafiq Al-Henawy has him killed and stages it as a suicide before the ruling. Twenty years later, his daughter returns to take revenge on Rafiq, who has become a businessman.
Aida works at Jalal Wahdan's investment company. Jalal asks her to help him return the savings of the depositors he has defrauded, from a bank in Switzerland that deals with voice prints. She tells Sami, her friend Rawya's husband, about this. Sami undergoes surgery to change his vocal cords, making his voice match Jalal's.
A friend of a terrorist network agent who carries out terrorist operations in Egypt calls detective Ahmed and asks him to release foreign hostages, threatening him with carrying out a terrorist operation if he refuses. Ahmed finds out where he is in the complex through the switchboard. They surround the place. Sadiq replaces the bag of explosives with the bag of Hassan, one of those present in the building.
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The series revolves around the struggle for money, and the fierce battles of two families and their differences because of a conflict over inheritance, and how the parties will ignore the blood ties for wealth.
Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.
Mahmoud is the head of Al-Shorbagy family. He runs into his childhood friend, Samy Sharkas, who returns from America and lavishes Mahmoud’s family with gifts. Samy wants to set up investment projects in Egypt, and Mahmoud works with him, but he's unaware that Samy is hiding a different agenda.
Bwabet El‑Halawani brings to life the human stories behind Egypt’s transformation during the Suez Canal era. Through craftsmen, families, and dreamers caught in political and social upheaval, the series blends history with personal struggle, showing how ambition, sacrifice, and resilience shaped a defining moment in Egypt’s past.
Bwabet El‑Halawani brings to life the human stories behind Egypt’s transformation during the Suez Canal era. Through craftsmen, families, and dreamers caught in political and social upheaval, the series blends history with personal struggle, showing how ambition, sacrifice, and resilience shaped a defining moment in Egypt’s past.
Salem falls into the trap of greed when he finds a treasure in a well in the seabed, and soon his life changes and flees from his country, and soon he returns to the past to haunt him while everyone tries to reach him to obtain their right to the treasure.
A psychiatrist is treating a patient for schizophrenia, but things take a turn, and the doctor discovers that the patient is not actually schizophrenic; rather, the nurse is trying to make him believe he has the illness.
A young scientist arrives in an Egyptian village as a series of mysterious murders occurs, with each victim found decapitated.
The documentary series (Shaheen... Why?) takes a look at all the musical performances in Youssef Chaheen's films, from his first film to his last, through 6 parts that make up this series. يلقي المسلسل الوثائقي (شاهين.. ليه؟) نظرة على جميع العروض الغنائية في أفلام يوسف شاهين، من أول فيلم له وحتى آخر فيلم من خلال 6 أجزاء هي قوام هذا المسلسل
