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The Falcon of Quraish, is a 2002 Moroccan play, directed by Hatem Ali, and starring Jamal Soleiman, Amal Arafa, Sulaf Fawakherji. running for 1 season.
Falcon of Quraish is a sweeping Syrian historical epic written by Walid Seif and directed by the acclaimed Hatem Ali, chronicling the extraordinary life of Abd al-Rahman al-Dakhil, grandson of the Umayyad caliphs and founder of the Umayyad emirate in Andalusia. The series opens with the Abbasid revolution's brutal destruction of the Umayyad dynasty in Damascus, following the young prince Abd al-Rahman (Jamal Suleiman) and his loyal companion Badr (Mohamed Meftah) as they flee across the desert to the Berber lands of North Africa and eventually to al-Andalus. There, against impossible odds, Abd al-Rahman transforms a fractured province into a new seat of Umayyad power. The first chapter of Hatem Ali and Walid Seif's celebrated Andalusian trilogy — epic, meticulous, and deeply human.
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