MAJOR UPDATE
EL QESSA EL KAMLA DRAMA
A crime that defies logic
Looking for edge-of-your-seat TV? MBC Shahid’s catalogue of true crime and chilling dramas is built to unsettle, and its new titles are a must for your Arabic thriller watch list.
What’s new: El Qessa Kamla: Bani Mazar, part two of the true-crime anthology that’s been one of this year’s best-performing titles has dropped recently. Inspired by real events that shook Egypt back in 2005, the show focuses on investigator Akram’s labyrinthine enquiries into a massacre that involves madness, black magic and buried gold.
Don’t miss: El Qessa El Kamla: Lo’bat Johannam is the breakout hit that kicked off the anthology. Sister Fahkriya is set in Kuwait in the late 90s and follows Huda Hussein, a caregiver so trusted that no one suspects her – until a terrifying discovery changes everything. Halat Nadera turns a psychiatrists’s casebook of ghosts and trauma into something far more unsettling. And Hofrat Jahannam is a gripping story of gang violence in the streets of Jeddah.