Amal Arafa
Birthday: Born in 1970-03-18 in Damascus, Syria
Deathday: Alive
A Syrian actress and singer, she's the daughter of composer Suhail Arafa. She was born in Damascus, and graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. She started as a singer, then moved to acting in the early 90s when director Haitham Haqqi gave her the opportunity to work in the series The Morning Star and The Spider's Web. However, her actual beginning was in the series The End of a Brave Man directed by Hisham Sharbatji.
TV Credits
صقر قريش
Character: زينب
A historical series that traces the rise and fall of the Umayyad dynasty, and follows the life of Abd al-Rahman I, founder of the Umayyad regime in Andalusia....
زقاق الجن
Character: شيماء
The events revolve around the cruel and tyrannical Abu Nadhir, who seeks to control the lives of his family members without any regard for the psychological pain he causes them, while it becomes clear that there are secrets in his life and his past returns to haunt him....
Shahr 10
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المفتاح
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A social drama about the Syrian society and the corruption that runs rampant across all of its different classes, as well as exploring some ideals like love, integrity, and honesty....
تخت شرقي
Character: أماني
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....
سيرة الحب
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Sert Al-Hob
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ذكريات الزمن القادم
Character: نادين
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....
شارع شيكاغو
Character: سماهر / ميرامار
An epic love story between a well-to-do blind girl and a rebel, set against a historical background spanning 60 years of conflicts, secrets and intrigue....
غزلان في غابة الذئاب
Character: Ghada
Tells a story of corruption in Syria. A minister's son takes advantage of his position and wealth to derail the life of a poor family....
الخوالي
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The story of Nassar Ibn Oraibi, a fighter against injustice, that sheds light on the life in the Damascus neighborhood and the role of one woman who becomes responsible for the house and her four daughters in light of her husband's absence during the Hajj....
سايكو
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A girl gets in trouble with society because she always tells the truth, no matter what problems or obstacles it may cost her, but this causes her to incur a lot of injustice....
كونتاك
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الغربال
Character: أم جابر
In 1927, during the period of the French Mandate, the Damascene neighborhood of Al Shaghour witnesses the murder of Salem, the son of a local leader, who was killed for having important papers that included dangerous language condemning a powerful faction in “Al Saraya.”...
الحقائب (ضبو الشناتي)
Character: Fedaa- فداء
The story of an ordinary Syrian family, torn between the idea of staying at home or migrating to a safer country. They eventually decide to leave, but they keep facing different obstacles in each of the separated-connected episodes....
وصايا الصبار
Character: نديمة
The series follows the family of Al-Mallah and Khaldun: the former enjoys great influence, while the other belongs to a downtrodden class. The spark of the story erupts with Khaldun’s desire to rob the Al-Mallah family, which turns the matter into a war between them and a settling of scores about the shared past and present that unites them....
أغمض عينيك
Character: Hayat
Hayat is forced to leave her son, Jude, who is eight years old and is diagnosed with autism, in the custody of her friend Munes who tries to provide for him a stable and secure life....
براندو الشرق
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To get funding for his first movie, a director sets out on a bittersweet journey to convince actor Khaled Salah, aka Brando Al Sharek, to star in it....
الزعيم
Character: زهزهان
In 1918 Damascus, after the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and before the French colonization of the country, six Damascene neighborhoods decide to choose one head to rule over them, only for clashes over the throne to crystalize and extend....
أسعد الوراق
Character: منيرة
During the period of the French occupation of Syria, the events of the series revolve around As'ad AlWarraq, an orphan, illiterate, poor young man who is pushed by circumstances between various paradoxes, between false accusations and the injustice of his neighborhood people towards him....
مدرسة الحب
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A story about the different and diverse types of love, including romantic love, sibling love, motherly love, and friendship, presented through several different angles....
وشاء الهوى
Character: مدى
The series discusses the stories of young university students, their reality during their studies, and the hardships and unknown fate they endure after graduation....
زمن الخوف
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Fadel, a customs employee, rethinks his life. He leaves his second wife, Badiaa, with whom he has lived for four years. For the first time, he considers praying and avoiding bribes, and moves to work in the archives. He also observes the lives of his children: Sobhi, the sheep merchant; Hussein, the leftist fighter; Zakia, the independent woman; and Zahra, the religious woman....
عشتار
Character: Ashtar
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....
قلوب صغيرة
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The series tackles a number of negative contemporary social phenomena, shedding light on the challenges encountered by young people, like violence against children, poverty, homelessness, begging, slave trade, motherhood, family disintegration, and honor crimes....
أولاد القيمرية
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أصوات خافتة
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عيلة خمس نجوم
Character: سمر
The story revolves around the family of Umm Ahmed Bilalish who lives in one of the old Damascene neighborhoods. When Farhan proposes to marry Samar, her mother reluctantly agrees. The events start taking a comic twist when the family wins the lottery and their social status changes....
مربى العز
Character: ملكة
Eighteen years after the children of three Damascene leaders were kidnapped, the truth begins to surface, tipping the balance in an intense battle between good and evil....
الليلة الثانية بعد الألف
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شرف
Character: آسيا
An issue of social sensitivity, a matter related to what is called honor, through the story of Nurse Asia, who decides to help many girls get rid of their out-of-wedlock pregnancies before they are buried and killed with the dagger of honor....
يا أنا يا هي
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The plot revolves around a Jordanian woman who owns a house in Damascus and plans to sell it, but her Syrian neighbor seeks to thwart her plan through a series of funny events and sudden situations....
السبع
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يا أنا يا هي
Character: Actor
The plot revolves around a Jordanian woman who owns a house in Damascus and plans to sell it, but her Syrian neighbor seeks to thwart her plan through a series of funny events and sudden situations....
الجوارح
Character: العنقاء
This series tells the story of the sheikh of an Arab tribe named Ibn al-Wahaj, who is one of the noblest and most honorable Arabs, and has three sons called al-Bashiq and Osama and the youngest Aqab. There was in the tribe of Ibn al-Wahhaj there is a man who hated him and his sons, so he submitted to the sage of the tribe and the author of the narrations in it (Ibn al-Rumiyya), and he asked him to test the ability of the sons of Ibn al-Wahhaj to live outside their father's tribe, so the idea ent...
أسرار المدينة
Character: زاهية
In a dramatic and social framework, Abu Mansour’s children work hard to improve their financial conditions, but they encounter major life obstacles, which they try to overcome....
مختصر مفيد
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Mukhtasar Mufid" is the title of a 1992 Syrian series starring Abbas al-Nouri and others. It is also the title of a seventeenth-century Persian geographer, written by the Iranian administrator Mohammad Mufid Mostafi Bavghi. The series was produced in 1992. It starred a number of prominent Syrian actors, including Abbas al-Nouri, Nadine Khoury, and Abdel Fattah al-Muzayin. The series deals with various social and political issues, and carries with it a lot of events and suspense...
نهاية رجل شجاع
Character: بهيرة
Mufid the monster, the naughty teenager, did not find anyone who knew how to deal with him properly, so he did not discover anyone around him and develop the good qualities that Mufid was distinguished for. The society in which he lived, starting from the harsh father at home, to the ignorant and arrogant teacher at school, to the mukhtar who punished him for cutting off the tail of Abboud's donkey... All of these were the cause of Mufid's loss and his premature end. As a result of this treatm...
ندى الأيام
Character: أمل
On June 6, 1996, a group of girls gathered on the day they received their baccalaureate degrees to take a photo. They agreed to meet again a decade later, specifically on June 6, 2006. This is the starting point for the events of the series, as each of its separate episodes we live the story of each girl, and we see what time has done to her....
Movie Credits
Solo Performance
Character: رنا
In the film, a family of moral, noble, musician, and singer friends save lives, trying to save them in the literal and metaphorical sense....
The Long Night
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Four 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....
Rising Rain
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Sabah is a creative writer who goes through the complexities of life in a city that pushes its children from its center to its outskirts where expatriates reside. He suffers from financial hardships, while a love story grows between a boy and a girl who meet at night in the rain....
Something Is Burning
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After the 1967 setback, Abu Ramzi is displaced from the Golan with his family, and he is tired in order to secure a livelihood and his wife who works in sewing helps him. As for the son Ramzi, he dreams of riches quickly and in the easiest way, which drives him to collide with his father, who dreams of a roof that shelter him through halal earnings....
Seven Floors
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Screenwriter Goes to the hospital for medical examinations, but he heard strange news. This hospital has seven floors, whenever it is moved to the bottom floor, becomes close to death...