Gamel Awwad
Actor · 1937 – 2010 · Jordan
A Jordanian actor, director, and author, born in Amman in 1937. His full name is Jamil Youssef Awad Al-Awwad. He studied interior design, and joined the Jordanian television since its inauguration in 1968. But he left the Jordanian capital Amman for a while to return again in 1974 to produce his first theatrical play entitled The Absent. Among his most important works in television dramas: Shajarat Al-Durr (1979), Abu Firas Al-Hamdani (1982) and Moon and Magic (1998).
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TV6.7Businessman Khaled's son, Yassin, gets kidnapped by an organ trafficking organization. Joined by his wife, he travels searching for his son and decides to infiltrate the criminal organization by working with them. Eventually, he faces several shocks and surprises involving his closest friends.
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.