
Bassel Khayyat
Actor · b. 1977 · Syria
A Syrian native with a degree in theatrical arts, Bassel Khayyat was always attached to acting since he was 8 years old, even participating in children's theater as a hobby. He was able to exercise that hobby into a career in acting where he would often portray daring and charismatic characters. His intensive roles and work in the television industry made him an immensely popular actor in the Arab world, especially in Syria. He executed most of his work in Syria but gained popularity in Egypt when acting in several Egyptian drama series between 2008-2015. In Ramadan 2017, Khayyat was recognized for his exceptional role when starred in 30 days series. As for his work in the film industry, some of his most credible work was Bab el Shams, El Aawda which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
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TV6.6DramaSarah is a widowed engineer with one desperate priority — saving her young son's life. When her boss Zein offers to pay for the cancer treatment on one condition — that she spend a night with him — she faces an impossible choice. What follows spirals far beyond that night into obsession, power and complicated feelings neither of them expected. An Arabic remake of the celebrated Turkish series Binbir Gece, starring Razane Jammal and Basel Khayat, with a theme song by Elissa.
TV5.5DramaBetrayed by his friends and the woman he loved, Majd is imprisoned but not broken. After escaping with a new face and name — Aser — he’s back with one goal: revenge.
TV10.0DramaThe Halaby family works in trade. When the father decides to write all his property over to one of his sons, the two brothers clash, until the eldest brother falls ill, and his younger son is forced to give up his ambition to take care of their business.
TV8.5CrimeDramaOn flight 710, a number of passengers share one thing with each other: that they are all mental patients with hidden secrets. Their plans and stories converge into one fate.
TV9.5War & PoliticsDramaThe second chapter of the acclaimed Andalusian trilogy by Walid Seif and Hatem Ali. Set in the golden age of Umayyad Cordoba, it traces the extraordinary rise of Muhammad ibn Abi Amir — known as Al-Mansur — from a young scholar arriving in Cordoba seeking knowledge, to the most powerful man in Andalusia. A sweeping story of ambition, political genius and the glittering, fragile peak of Arab civilisation in Spain. Stars Taim Hassan and Jamal Suleiman.
TV8.6CrimeDramaPolice Captain Hisham begins his investigation into the murder of an influencer found dead in the car of a national club electoral candidate.
TVFamilyDramaThe story of the five sons of Farid Noh, following each of their lives and the issues they face together.
TV8.5DramaThe show revolves around a group of friends who have remained very close since their school days. Though life has taken them down different paths, when they're brought back together, new confrontations and secrets arise, and a series of very surprising events unfold.
TV9.5DramaThe first comprehensive dramatic telling of the Palestinian Nakba, seen through the eyes of a poor rural family from the 1930s British Mandate era through the massacres of 1948 and the defeat of 1967. Written by Palestinian poet Walid Seif — based on his own family history — and directed by the late Syrian master Hatem Ali, this is widely considered one of the greatest Arab television dramas ever produced. A monumental work of collective memory, historical witness and human endurance.
TV8.0DramaMysteryThe story opens with the murder of businessman Faisal Muthanna, ruled a homicide likely perpetrated by someone who wanted to rob him of his wealth. Elsewhere, Samir, a despairing tailor and taxi driver, reunites with his friend Yazen after years of war separated them.
TVDramaSet in a traditional Damascene neighborhood, the story follows—in a comedic way—the protagonist's quest to find the woman he loved but never confessed his feelings to over forty years ago, after he begins seeing her in his dreams every day.
TVDramaThe series revolves around failed love stories as a result of a compelling circumstance or because of a social or financial problem or a problem related to religion so that the audience develops a state of sympathy with the series characters In each episode the series presents a separate station from the other detailing a glowing love relationship that was extinguished by various circumstances
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Movie6.5WarRomanceYousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.
Movie9.5DramaThe film is about a dreamy girl who belongs to a middle class family. She is dominated by her father who is characterized by severe authority, goodness and tenderness, by conservatism and liberalism. The family lives in a heterogeneous quarter with contradictions among its inhabitants.
Movie9.0DramaThe film's story revolves around a child who has psychological problems (Adel), and the head of the family is disabled due to a severe injury he suffered in the Palestine War, so he became a seat and was unable even to perform his marital duties so that the wife continues to suffer from a double disadvantage, as she began bearing the burdens of raising her children, and assumed responsibility for the home The entire role of the father is also practiced, and there are uncommon forms of cruelty coated with a kind of maternal love that she cannot curb while shaving her son who sucks his thumb, and plucking his hair, and her daughter (Princess) is also punished by shaving her head because she colluded with her brother.
Movie6.5After a prolonged separation, the members of The Devils team reunite once more to foil a wicked plot intended to steal a large number of Egyptian antiquities.
MovieMysteryDramaFour political activists friends are arrested by the repressive regime in Syria in the 1970s and spend twenty years in detention, three of them are released, and the fourth remains. The three friends are shocked by the huge changes they found in society, while showing the hardships their fourth comrade faces in prison.