Iyad Abu Al-Shamat

A Syrian actor, born in Damascus. He graduated from the acting department at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus in 1996. He made his debut in the series A Nautical Kind of Love (1997), after which he participated in a large number of series such as Family Girls (2012), Under the Home Country's Sky (2013), and Omar ( 2012). He also has many contributions to dubbing and theater. Then, he turned to writing and wrote the series We Shall Meet Tomorrow (2015), which was a great success.

Works

Omar

A historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State.

Release Date2012-07-20

Charactersd Hormuzan

Episode Count31

Vote Count29

Al Zeer Salem

Chronicling the Basus War between two Arabian tribes and their allies, the drama follows the emergence of renowned Arab figure, Al Zeer Salem.

Release Date2000-11-27

Charactersd درعان

Episode Count40

Vote Count5

Rodaj

Release Date2010-02-02

Charactersd حسن

Vote Count1

Love Has Decreed

Love Has Decreed

The series discusses the stories of young university students, their reality during their studies, and the hardships and unknown fate they endure after graduation.

Release Date2006-09-23

Charactersd فواز

Episode Count30

Holding Back Tears

Holding Back Tears

The series examines the change in the composition of the Syrian family, through the life of a number of Damascene families that are connected by a number of intertwining relationships, as love blossoms between the lawyer Riyad El Emary and the interior designer Riad El Merady.

Release Date2005-10-04

Charactersd يوسف

Episode Count30

Takht Sharqi

The story of four young men who were high school classmates. Despite the differences in their understanding of life, their work and their tendencies, they somehow share something in common, as their destinies intersect to tell a story about love, friendship and the double standards of morality.

Release Date2010-10-11

Charactersd رامز

Episode Count34

Vote Count1

Rijal Al-Izz

Rijal Al-Izz — Men of Honor — is a 2011 Syrian Damascene period drama set in the Saroujeh neighborhood of Damascus during the French occupation of the 1930s. The series follows Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shami, a wrongfully accused man who escapes a death sentence and transforms into a resistance fighter, striking fear into the French occupiers while navigating betrayal and injustice within his own community. Starring Rashid Assaf and Qusai Khouli.

Release Date2011-08-14

Charactersd شكري أبو الذهب

Episode Count32

Vote Count3

Kings of Sects

The series follows the rupture of Andalusia into many warring states, which allowed the northern Kingdom of Castile to expand its borders and take control.

Release Date2005-10-04

Charactersd بلقين بن باديس

Episode Count30

Vote Count6

Palestinian Alienation

The 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.

Release Date2004-10-15

Charactersd محمود

Episode Count31

Vote Count4

Escaping Tel Aviv

A seemingly ordinary life is shattered when a woman uncovers a hidden truth about her husband, plunging her into a high-stakes international conflict. As loyalties blur and danger escalates, an Egyptian intelligence officer is tasked with a critical mission where failure is not an option.

Release Date2009-11-14

Charactersd ضابط بالجيش الإسرائيلي

Vote Count48

Seraa Al Zaman

Seraa Al Zaman

Set 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.

Release Date2002-11-05

Charactersd عادل

Episode Count29

Alive

Alive

The series deals with social stories of several different characters who carry the same obsessions, fears, and concerns, and then their paths intersect in a way that makes them unite with each other to overcome those fears.

Release Date2009-08-22

Charactersd فايز

Episode Count28

Soft Thorns

Soft Thorns

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.

Release Date2005-10-04

Charactersd غيث

Episode Count31

Me, Her and Haya

An accusation. A broken marriage. A hazardous attempt to fix it. In a calculated emotional gamble, three people are drawn into a labyrinth of love, trust… and everything in between!

Release Date2026-02-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count30

Vote Count1

Tango

Tango

The story of a quadrant of Tango dancers as they discuss the difficulties of love and how to deal with one's partner. As they all have different views, they all have different opinions on what to do after a break up. One of them however, has an opinion that is extremely far away from any of their points of view, as she believes that suicide is the perfect thing to do after breaking up with one's lover.

Release Date2018-05-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count31

Blood Oath

Blood Oath

Salim Fayad is an ordinary pharmaceutical company owner whose life is shattered in seconds when his car kills the daughter of Lebanon's most feared drug lord. Instead of revenge, the dealer makes him an offer — become his personal assassin, or watch his family die. A Lebanese thriller adapted from the celebrated Serbian series Besa, following a decent man's descent into a world he was never meant to inhabit, doing terrible things to protect the people he loves.

Release Date2020-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

We'll Meet Tomorrow

Life returns to a building abandoned after the Lebanese Civil War when it becomes a temporary haven for Syrian refugees, as war ravages their homeland.

Release Date2015-06-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count30

Vote Count1

The Age of Shame

The Age of Shame

Having spent most of her 20s taking care of her sick mother and her family's household, a sexually repressed woman elopes and has to face the hypocrisies of middle eastern society.

Release Date2009-08-22

Episode Count30

A Minute of Silence

Amir and Adham are two inmates that are facing death sentence. but strange events begin to happen that leads to smuggling them out of prison, by the car of the new director, and the execution of two others instead of them, and then a series of events begin to evolve.

Release Date2019-05-06

Episode Count30

Vote Count1

النصية

النصية

Release Date1998-10-21

Episode Count32

صدى الروح

صدى الروح

Release Date2006-05-30

Episode Count1

Guards of Silence

Based on novel by Ghada al-Samman.

Release Date2009-02-04

Vote Count1

Public Relations

A tour guide is caught between two men: the first is a powerful and influential businessman, who is secretly married to the tour guide, and demands that she abort the fetus she is carrying from him. As for the other, she meets him on one of her tours and falls in love with him, as he appears to her to be a light-hearted, helpful and humble man.

Release Date2005-07-07