Season 1 • Episode 41
LatestHafez Naguib was raised between his mother's sophisticated family, and his father's poor and modest family. When his father gets killed at the time of the English occupation, he swears to take revenge for him and every other persecuted Egyptian citizen, and leads the life of a true patriot.
Acting
Mohamed Sobhi fully commits to melodramatic patriot mode.
Production
Controversial propaganda aesthetics that aged like milk.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series aired during a tense period of Egyptian media, when state-aligned television often blurred entertainment with nationalist messaging.
Mohamed Sobhi was already famous for politically charged theater; this role essentially turned him into a small-screen revolutionary mascot for early 2000s Egypt.
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