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A sweeping saga spanning Egyptian history from the era of King Farouk to the early 21st century, Al Helmeya Nights centres on the bitter rivalry between the Al-Badri and Ghanem families in Cairo's Helmeya neighbourhood. Driven by revenge, ambition, and shifting power, the series — written by Osama Anwar Okasha with over 300 actors across six seasons — is widely considered one of the greatest achievements in Arab television drama.
The series takes place in the Askar hamlet between two families, the Ouf family has the land and history, while the Shalaby family work as mercenaries and used illegal methods to create false history for themselves. Will they succeed or roots and origins can't be forged?
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Ali Abd-El-Zaher is a member of an Islamic radical group which has been launching attacks against the government and the society under the orders of the spiritual leader Brother Saif. Ali manages to assasinate an officer, but as he escapes from the authorities he gets hit by a car driven by Sewsan, the daughter of a respected Muslim family living in the Maadi district. Sewsan's father who is a surgeon and his family take care of the injured terrorist who then tries to conceal the truth about his personality, such as his dislike of music, unveiled women and Western life styles.
Based on the timeless novel by Ghazi Al-Gosaibi, four young men share more than just an apartment during Cairo’s golden age. They embark on a journey of self-discovery, shaped by the exchange of ideas and fueled by a longing for freedom.
A Kuwaiti young man marries an Egyptian girl while studying in Egypt, and when he finishes his studies, he divorces her and marries his cousin, and travels without his knowledge of her pregnancy and after giving birth, Desouki marries her and raises her daughter. But after years, the father returns to Egypt and discovers that he has a daughter.
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.
The series revolves around the Egyptian pharaonic heritage and examines the social situation in Egypt during the period of conflict that is the 1950s, during which the Egyptians united against the British and the family of Muhammad Ali, until the 1952 revolution broke out to save the country.
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.
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.
Fathi steals cars on behalf of the teacher Aliwa, who does not pay him his dues financially. When Fathi gets fed up with this, the teacher Aliwa reports him and Fathi goes to prison. In prison, he meets two other thieves, and the three of them decide to stop stealing and repent to God. Fathi decides to cooperate with the police and work again with the teacher Aliwa to inform the police about him.
A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.
Hussein is in a state of extreme depression because of the boring routine of work and the pressures of life he faces as an employee, husband and brother, decides to escape from the reality of his work and his family, go out to the street without a goal to know the master who provides a place to stay, and while roaming recognize Naima One of the teams roams the streets and falls in love with her.
A thug kills female students from the girls' school, and it happens that one of the teachers of this school is completely similar to that thug, so the police arrest him, thinking that he’s the thug.
After failing to marry Safi, the daughter of the company owner whom he loved and was rejected by her father, Saber marries his poor neighbor. After a while, his first love Safi resorts to him to save her after she became pregnant by another man. He marries her, and the two wives give birth to two girls. The poor girl dies in childbirth, and the mother's issue becomes knowing which of them is her daughter, as the husband refuses to tell her this information.
One of the major contracting companies is able to obtain a permit to demolish an entire neighborhood and build luxury residential towers. The People's Assembly member, Magda, is in charge of the district. The corrupt officials deal with their efforts. During a session of the People's Assembly, asking to meet in Aswan, decided to go to look at the documents that prove the corruption of officials who try to spoil her case and disrupt the theft of documents.
