
Salma Al-Masri
Acting
Biography
A Syrian actress, born in Damascus to an artistic family. Her grandfather was the famous oud player Omar El Naqshbandi. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at Damascus University, but she did not practice law, as she pursued a career in acting. She started her career through children's programs. She participated in many productions in theater, cinema and television, and her beginning was in the early seventies. One of her first movies was A Prank in Mexico, and her first play was King Lear, while her first television roles were in the series Fawzia, The Wings, and Narrow Paths.
Known For

Created and starring the legendary Yasser Al Azmeh, Maraya ran for 20 seasons from 1982 to 2013 — making it one of the longest-running comedy series in Arab television history. Each episode presents standalone stories skewering the social, political and economic frustrations of everyday Arab life with sharp wit and biting satire. A mirror held up to an entire society, it entered homes across the Arab world for three decades and never stopped being relevant.
Maraya

Damascus in the late 1990s. Kareem and Nabila are raising five very different daughters — each with her own personality, ambitions and complications — alongside a scene-stealing aunt Jamila. Every episode centres on a family issue that brings everyone together to argue, laugh and muddle through. Warm, witty and deeply rooted in Syrian daily life, it remains one of the most beloved family comedies in Syrian television history. Stars Jamal Suleiman and Khaled Taja.
The Four Seasons

A body falls from the top floor at a glamorous party in Beirut's wealthy elite. Detective Rami begins questioning the guests and quickly discovers that four women — Falak, Alma, Joelle and Nayla — are bound together by a web of secrets, betrayal and hidden history. A glossy Lebanese murder mystery set among the privileged class.
Stiletto

When the Abbasids overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus, slaughtering nearly the entire dynasty, one young prince escapes — Abd al-Rahman. Hunted across deserts and seas, he eventually reaches the fringes of the Muslim world and, through sheer will and political genius, founds a new Umayyad emirate in Andalusia. Written by Walid Seif and directed by Hatem Ali, this is the first chapter of their celebrated Andalusian trilogy — epic, human and historically meticulous.
The Falcon of Quraish

Taking place in the Thieves' Market located in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the events deal with a number of stories dealing with counterfeiting currencies, drug trafficking, and others.
Kanoon
The series goes into details of the events that Syria went through between the years 1955-1959, including the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, the establishment of unity between Syria and Egypt, and the revolution against the monarchy in Iraq, through the Qishani neighborhood, where its people work as merchants, lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and other works.
Hammam AlQishani

Matar disappears under mysterious circumstances for 20 years, during which everyone has believed he had died a martyr. However, he returns in a new form and builds a financial empire amidst the mystery surrounding the source of his wealth. Using the spider's method, he tightens his grip on everyone and exploits them to achieve his goals of doubling his wealth and taking revenge on his past friends.
Memories of the Next Era

Separate connected episodes about events and situations taken from the reality of daily life, and Aisha solves them, and each episode also presents the methods of making dishes from Damascus cuisine, in the framework of comedic situations between the life of Aisha and those around her.
Znoud Al-Sit

A sweeping historical epic tracing the life of Saladin from his humble origins to his unification of fractured Muslim kingdoms and his legendary recapture of Jerusalem from the Crusaders after nearly a century of occupation. Starring Jamal Suleiman and directed by the late Hatem Ali, written by Walid Seif — the same partnership behind Palestinian Alienation — this is widely regarded as one of the finest historical dramas in Arabic television, epic in scale yet deeply human in its portrayal of leadership, faith and sacrifice.
Salah Al-Deen Al-Ayoubi

Essam and Ragaa experience unsolvable problems and disputes over one of Essam's colleagues. These disputes increase to affect their children negatively over time.
Sons of Oppression

This biography of Al Hajjaj Bin Youssef Al Thaqafi looks back on his cruelty, his clemency and his loyalty, and paints the portrait of a controversial regent.
Al Hajjaj

The series discusses the living conditions of middle-class families by presenting the daily lives of a group of educated characters looking for job opportunities and self-fulfillment in the capital, Damascus, and it deals with the relationships between spouses, siblings, friends, and lovers, as well as between parents and children.
Another Rainy Day

A sitcom Syrian comedy about one of the wealthiest families in Damascus and their tenant.
Humi Hon

The series deals with social life and raises many important issues that the Arab society suffers from, such as authoritarianism, social pressures. It also presents the negatives and positives in a dramatic comic style.
Neighborhood Live On Air

Farah is a talented wedding planner who has kept her heart locked up ever since the man she was supposed to marry vanished on their wedding day five years ago. When her boss hands her his new wedding to organise, she discovers the groom is that same man — now engaged to someone else. A warm, bittersweet Lebanese romantic comedy-drama starring Dana Mardini and Nicolas Mouawad, adapted from the Turkish hit İyi Günde Kötü Günde.
Ala Al Hilwa Wa Al Morra

At a Damascus girls' high school, the school counsellor Hanan is the quiet centre of everyone's storms — helping teenagers navigate family pressure, social expectations and the bruising complexities of adolescence, while quietly managing the unravelling of her own marriage. Each student carries a different wound; each episode peels back another layer. A warm, perceptive Syrian drama about the hidden costs of growing up female in Arab society. Directed by Rasha Sharbatji, starring Salma Al-Masri and Qusay Khouli.
Soft Thorns

A father of four who works for the Police and his wife dreams that he finishes his university education so he can get promoted, joins the university but drops out after his wife dies. He then works as a cab driver and his children rent a room to (Amal) to increase their income.
The Young Parents

The series monitors the social, political and cultural life in Syria from the period 1932 to 1936, where the events take place in two neighboring areas: the city of Aleppo, and a supposed rural area called Kom alHajar.
كوم الحجر

This Syrian drama series takes place before the crisis in Syria, focusing on two aristocratic families who appear to love and understand each other. In reality, however, there is a hidden conflict lurking beneath this facade.
Faces Behind the Faces

After her parents get divorced, Ishtar goes to live with her grandmother. When her grandmother passes away, she leaves the house to Ishtar , but her boyfriend tricks her into writing it over to him. She then goes to her aunt, who introduces her to the world of art through her voice.