# The best Arabic TV series of all time

From Layali Al Helmeya to Bab Al-Hara: the Arabic series that appear most in critics' and audiences' lists (Al Mashhad, Zahrat Al Khaleej, IMDb).

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## Top 12

1. **Layali Al Helmeya (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Osama Anwar Okasha's saga of Cairo's Helmeya district.
2. **Raafat Al-Haggan (1988)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The story of an Egyptian spy, starring Mahmoud Abdel Aziz.
3. **Bab Al-Hara (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Damascus neighbourhood under the French Mandate.
4. **The Palestinian Exodus (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Palestinian family from the 1930s to the Nakba.
5. **Al-Zir Salem (2000)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The War of Basus, starring Salloum Haddad.
6. **Dayaa Dayaa (2008)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Syrian comedy set in a forgotten village.
7. **Maraya (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yasser Al-Azma's satirical comedy sketches.
8. **Al-Shahd wal-Domoue (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two brothers and their families at odds, written by Osama Anwar Okasha.
9. **Saqr Quraysh (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Abd al-Rahman I and the founding of the Umayyad state in al-Andalus.
10. **Rabie Qurtuba (2003)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Al-Andalus under al-Hakam II and Almanzor.
11. **Omar (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The life of Umar ibn al-Khattab in a big-budget production.
12. **El Kabeer Awi (2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ahmed Mekky in an Upper Egypt comedy.
13. **Al Hayba (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A powerful family on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

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