Al-Shaima Ahmed Farouk
Published on: Saturday, February 10, 2024 – 10:11 AM | Last updated: Saturday, February 10, 2024 – 10:11 AM
Drama makers are preparing to release posters for their series to announce the works participating in the Ramadan drama season in 2024, and production companies are revealing the heroes participating in their productions to attract the audience. Among the faces whose return has been announced so far after an absence from Ramadan participations: Somaya Al-Khashab, Yasmine Sabry, and Hala Shiha.
• Yasmine Sabry has two faces in her departure
The artist, Yasmine Sabry, sparked controversy after the company that produced her series “Raheel” released the promotional poster, as she appeared with two characters, which led some to guess the story of the series, and to speculate about the character that Yasmine will play in her new series after her absence from the Ramadan drama.
Some expected that Yasmine would play two different characters or twin characters, and others expected that it might be a story of the rise of a simple girl who achieves successes and becomes a successful businesswoman.
The series is scheduled to have only 15 episodes. It is written by Mohamed Abdel Moati and directed by Ibrahim Fakhr. Yasmine Sabry previously collaborated with author Mohamed Abdel Moati in two works, the series “My Story” and the series “The Legend.”
The last series that Yasmine Sabry participated in was in the Ramadan drama, the series Second Chance in 2020, where she played the character of a girl who is exposed to a nervous shock due to her fiancé’s betrayal, so she decides to take revenge by claiming that she has lost her memory. It was written by Mostafa Gamal Hashem and Mohamed Sayed Bashir and directed by Markus Adel, and Ahmed Magdy Wahba co-starred with her. Magdy, Ayten, Amer, and Diab.
• Hala Shiha returns to acting again
With the release of the posters for the series “Empire Meem” starring Khaled El Nabawy, Hala Shiha appeared among the heroes of the series, thus officially announcing her return to the field of acting after her famous dispute with Tamer Hosni in the movie “Not Me,” which ended with her announcing her departure from artistic work and disavowing the movie.
Hala’s last participation in the Ramadan drama season was in the series Betrayal of a Covenant with the star Yousra. Despite the success of the series, Hala faced criticism for her role after her facial features changed as a result of some cosmetic materials such as “lip fillers” and “Botox.”
It is clear that Hala is excited about her return to art again, as she published a picture from behind the scenes of the Mim Empire series, accompanied by director Mohamed Salama and a group of the work’s heroes, through her Instagram account. The series is taken from the original novel by writer Ihsan Abdel Quddus, and the script and dialogue were written by Mohamed Suleiman Abdel. Al-Malik, and the novel was previously presented in a movie starring the late artist Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar.
• Somaya al-Khashab returns with 100 men
Somaya Al-Khashab will participate in the Ramadan 2024 drama season in the series “With 100 Men” with Mahmoud Abdel-Mughni, Salwa Khattab, Salah Abdullah, and Ibrahim Al-Samman, written by Mahmoud Hamdan and Mohamed Abdel-Mawla, directed by Ibram Nashat.
The events of the series take place in a popular context within the Egyptian neighborhood, where Somaya plays during the events the character of a microbus driver, and the work presents the difficult circumstances and obstacles that a woman goes through in a job like this.
The last series in which Somaya participated in the Ramadan drama season in 2021, with the star Mohamed Ramadan in the series “Musa”, written by Nasser Abdel Rahman and directed by Mohamed Salama, in which she embodied the character of Halawatham, a popular lady in one of the Cairo neighborhoods who owns a huge business with her brother, and the events take place in 1940s.
