6.060 minSeason 3 • Episode 10
LatestBarry and Molly are on the brink of waging war on the Caliphate. Leila makes a bold political move and braves the possibility of a close betrayal. Barry and Daliyah face a final reckoning in their relationship. The conflict in Abuddin threatens to turn into a bloody civil war.
The story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Bassam "Barry" Al Fayeed, the younger son of the dictator of a war-torn nation, ends a self-imposed 20-year exile to return to his homeland, accompanied by his American wife and children, for his nephew's wedding. Barry’s reluctant homecoming leads to a dramatic clash of cultures as he is thrown back into the familial and national politics of his youth.
Acting
Ashraf Barhom's Jamal: terrifying, pathetic, impossible to look away
Production
Morocco standing in for fictional Abuddin, uncomfortably real
Creator
Gideon Raff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Gideon Raff also made Prisoners of War, the Israeli series that became Homeland. He knows morally compromised protagonists.
The fictional nation Abuddin was deliberately created to avoid specific real-world parallels—though viewers constantly mapped it onto Syria, Libya, and Egypt during the Arab Spring.
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