
Medhat El Adl
Writing
Biography
Medhat Tawfeek al-Adl was born Mansoura (Delta of Egypt) in 1951. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1981 and worked for two years as a doctor. He started his career in art in the mid 1980’s when he wrote the lyrics of a number of songs of Amr Diab’s film “Ice cream fi Gleem” for which he wrote the dialogue. He also wrote the dialogue of a big number of films; “Amrika shikabika”, “Harb al-farawla”, “Qeshr al-bondok”, “Saeedy fel-game’a al-Amrikeyya”, “Short we fanella we cap”, “Walad we bent” and “Al-dealer”. Medhat also prepared the script of a number of TV series; “Mahmoud al-Masry, “Al-andaleeb”, and “Kessat hobb”.
Known For

The series depicts the period between the 23rd of July's revolution and the Suez Crisis, through picturing the Jews' Alley and its residents, and how Egypt's political turmoil at the time influenced their daily lives.
Jews Alley

A narration of the life of the iconic artist Abdel Halim Hafez and the obstacles he faced, both personally and professionally, when he started his singing career, following his journey from a substitute for singer Karem Mahmoud, to become a recognized star that has his own light and aura.
The Nightingale: The Story of a Nation

Ahd is a wealthy woman who's the head of the family, and she has always depended on coffee readings to predict significant and life-altering events in her personal and family lives, but she gradually learns that her own family is plotting against her.
Broken Promises

Mahmoud works in the port of Alexandria and gets close to Adnan Fakhouri, the wealthy businessman, and marries his sister. After his ships and companies get nationalized by the 1952 July revolution, Mahmoud and his brothers travel to America and then return in the era of Sadat.
Mahmoud Al-Masri

Rivalries over power and wealth escalate between two families in the hamlet of Abdul Jabbar, and conflicts flare up between them because of a marriage that takes place between two parties of the two families.
A Rare Currency

A social series revolving around the story of a marriage that appears to be successful, but it passes through minor accumulations that turn into a fierce conflict that brings out the evil that lies within the human soul.
For the Highest Price

The story takes place inside the world of domestic servants , where a woman from a local area called Naima runs an office for maids and cooking food for events, and through her work and her diverse relationships we discover many hidden secrets and endless problems.
El-Hesab Yegma'

Hammaam lives with his big family in a crowded Egyptian alley. As he is jobless, he loses his girl to a rich suitor. He then decides to leave for Amsterdam where his uncle has immigrated long ago. As soon as he arrives he loses his money and passport and gets assaulted in an inn. Adriano the young Egyptian emigrant saves his neck and helps him find his uncle who dumps him. Hence, Hammaam stays with a group of young Arabs. After his tiring journey between failure and success he falls in love with a young lady who helps him fulfill his dream of buying a certain famous restaurant. As his business flourishes, he returns home to visit his family proud of his success.
Hammaam in Amsterdam

Within the framework of social drama, the events of the series revolve around a grandfather and his relationship with his grandchildren
Thresholds of Joy

With Henedy Shaw, Mohamed Henedy followed Ramadan, Mabrouk Abu Al-Alamein, and his most famous characters, as he recalls them with the art stars who participated in his various artworks in a comic framework, play and joke
Henedi Show

Rahma Halim (Yousra) is a successful university professor who leads what seems to be a life of social and educational glory. As more details are revealed about her childhood and mental history, a much darker side of monstrosity and evilness will add to the complexity of her life within her society.
Above Suspicion

When a conservative Islamic preacher meets a beautiful violin player, they get close to each other and mutual romantic feelings build. As he comes to believe in the value of art and its influence on society, he finds himself torn between his love and his conservative beliefs.
The Preacher

After his expulsion from the Military Academy, Hussain gets involved in mafia crimes abroad. Upon being deported to an Egyptian prison, and in order to give him a second chance to live a well meaning life, the Egyptian Intelligence Agency assign him with a secret mission. Hussain reluctantly accepts extensive bio-psychological training with a unique patriotic team who revive his love for his country.
Mafia

A group of young Egyptians are planning to immigrate to the United States from Bucharest. But, when the man they hired steals their money and leave them on the Hungarian border, they are forced to work together to overcome adversity.
America Abracadabra

Khalaf, a bumpkin southern Egyptian wins a scholarship to study at the American University in Cairo where students - many from Cairo's upper class - are known for their Americanized attitudes.
Upper Egyptian in the American University

When Officer Shukri Abdel Aal refuses to shoot the protestors against the English occupation, he is forced to retire as punishment. He gets his job back after a while, only for history to repeat itself when Shukri finds himself facing orders to shoot at students marching in a protest.
Backstreets

The story follows Hamza, nicknamed Dragon, whose sick child needs treatment, but his financial condition is faltering, then events lead him to become rich by entering the world of human organ trafficking.
Brand New

To face the declining revenues of the hotel that Raouf runs, he announces a competition to eat the largest amount of food in order to attract more guests, but hundreds of poor people join the contest, turning it into a tragedy that demonstrates various forms of suffering.
Nutshells

Hatred generated from an early age between on and Yusuf, ended the first rings migration on to Ukraine and Prison Joseph on his hands in Egypt, and in Ukraine set to allow wife to and Habiba Joseph preceding her newborn son, and works with drug dealers and run away with money to an unknown location, and Joseph travels to Turkey to work in the drug trade, even above the star and Ahlgreman meet again, to finish the story, one of them killed.
The Dealer

Set in the 1940s; the story of Abd Rabbo, the irrigation inspector who arrives in Al-Sayed village in Upper Egypt, where he meets Master Fadloun, who controls everything, even the people. Abd Rabo begins recording his life in the village, writing about its people and the mysterious Fadloun.