Omer series

OMAR FAROOQ

 Omar (Arabic: عُمَرْ‎) or Omar Farouk (Persian: عمر فاروق‎) is a historical[1][2] Arab television drama miniseries-serial that was produced and broadcast by MBC1 and directed by the Syrian director Hatem Ali.[3] Co-produced by Qatar TV, the series is based on the life of Omar ibn Al-Khattab, the second Caliph of Islam, and depicts his life from 18 years old until the moments of his death.[3]

Genre

Biography, drama, religion, history, serial

Based on

Omar bin al-Khattab a.k.a. Omar al-Farouk or Caliph Omar I

Written by

Walid Saif

Directed by

Hatem Ali

Producers

MBC Group, Qatar TV

Production locations

Saudi Arabia, Morocco

Editor

Raouf Zaza

Running time

45 minutes

Budget

200 million SAR

The series faced large controversy[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] due to its depiction of Omar, Abu Bakr, Uthman and Ali, the four Rashidun Caliphs,[11] along with other characters, who some Muslims believe should not be depicted, much like Mohammad. The series consists of 31 episodes and was originally aired in the month of Ramadan since July 20, 2012.[12][13][14] It was made at a cost of 200 million Saudi riyals and filmed in Morocco, primarily in the cities of Marakesh, Tangiers, El Jadida, Casablanca and Mohammedia.

After the series was broadcast on MBC, it was dubbed into several languages for international broadcast[15][16][17] and subtitled in English on YouTube; it received great support from many different scholarly bodies and people watching it.[18][19][20] As the series depended largely on reliable historical established facts, the series did not face criticism in terms of its content, as past films faced.

Cast

Samer Ismail as Umar ibn Al-Khattab (physical actor)[21]

Assad Khalifa as Umar ibn Al-Khattab (voice actor)

Ghassan Massoud as Abu Bakr

Mehyar Khaddour as Khalid ibn al-Walid

Tamer Al-Arbeed as Uthman ibn Affan

Ghanem Zrelli as Ali ibn Abi Talib

Faisal Al-Omairi as Bilal ibn Rabah

Alaa' Rashidi as Ammar ibn Yasir

Rafi Wahba as Jafar ibn Abi Talib

Abdullah Sheikh Khamees as Yasir ibn Amer

Baha' Tharwat as Abu Hudhayfa ibn 'Utba

Abdel-Aziz Makhioun as Abu Talib[22]

Mohammad Miftah as Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib.[23]

Ahmed Mansour as 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf

Mahmoud Khalili as Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah

Suhail Jbaei as Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas

Qasim Melho as Amr ibn al-'As

Hisham Bahloul as Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl[24]

Yazan Al-Sayed as Al-Qa'qa'a ibn Amr at-Tamimi

Fethi Haddaoui as Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

Jawad Al-Shakrji as Abu al-Hakam/Abu Jahl.[25]

Fayez Abu Dan as Abu Lahab

Hassan Al-Jundi as Utbah ibn Rabi'ah

Rafiq Al-Subaiei as Waraqah ibn Nawfal

Ghazi Hussein as Umayyah ibn Khalaf[26]

Jalal Al-Taweel as Salman the Persian

Ziad Twati as Wahshi ibn Harb

Basem Dakak as Walid ibn Utbah

May Skaf as Hind bint Utbah

Bernadette Hudeib as Rayhana bint Zayd

Fadi Sbeeh as Safwan ibn Umayya

Mohammad Haddaqi as Umayr ibn Wahb

Nadera Imran as Sajah bint Al-Harith[27]

Khaled Al-Qaish as Ayyash ibn Abi Rabiah

Jaber Joukhdar as Abdullah ibn Masud

Ghazwan Al-Safadi as Al-Walid ibn al-Walid

Mahmoud Nasr as Zayd ibn al-Khattab

Alfat Omar as Atiqa bint Zayd[28]

Siham Aseef as Layla bint al-Minhal

Najah Safkouni as Suhayl ibn Amr

Abdel-Karim Al-Qawasmi as Walid ibn al-Mughira

Rami Khalaf as Saeed bin Zaid

Ghassan Azb as Huyayy ibn Akhtab

Riyadh Wrdiyani as Salul

Nasser Wrdiyani as Khattab ibn Nufayl

Muna Wassef as Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah.[29]

Abdel-Hakim Quteifan as Malik ibn Nuwayrah

Mohannad Quteish as Al-Muthanna ibn Haritha

Faten Shahin as Umm Jamil bint Harb

Andre Skaff as Suraqa bin Malik

Fatimah Saad as Sumayyah bint Khayyat

Qamar Murtadha as Salma Umm-ul-Khair

Nasr Shama as Uthman Abu Quhafa

Murshad Dergham as Mughira ibn Shu'ba

Randy Halabi as Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan

Omar Azouzi as Al-'As ibn Wa'il

Areej Khaddour as Fatimah bint al-Khattab

Amn Al-Arned as Salim Mawla Abu Hudhayfa

Yasser Abdel-Latif as Al-Najashi

Amer Ali as Yazdegerd III

Maram Ben Aziza as wife of Yazdegerd III (Maria)

Jay Abdo as satrap

Iyad Abu Al-Shamat as Hormuzan

Jamal Abbasi as Musaylimah

Mohammad Al Rashi as Piruz Nahavandi

Suzan Najm Aldeen as Borandukht

Juliet Awad as Al-Khansa

Mohammad Quri'ah as Heraclius

Mustapha Tah-Tah as Mukhayriq

Unknown Actor as Theodore Trithyrius

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