Although dozens of Arab series are shown annually in Ramadan, the drama of the nineties remains in the hearts of audiences, who, despite the small number of series, were closer to epic works.

Arab drama had not known monopoly by the producers, nor reliance on the single star, but on the awareness of the viewer, where the most important protagonist is the target audience.

The work starts from the Tatars as a tool to immortalize the story and engrave it in the mind of the spectator, while the championship is collective, because the story is the main cornerstone, while the star is just a part of the whole, and the dramatic threads in the work are rich, and the stories are woven from the awareness of the street and touch with the problems of society and its stories.

These are the most famous series Ramadan the nineties that the audience does not get bored, but if you are from the new generation, we advise you to give these works a chance to follow, perhaps they will become one of your favorites as well.

I will not live in my father's robes

"Sunni Farah".. Only fans of "I Won't Live in My Father's Djellaba" know this password, which you often encounter on social media platforms. Although the series has been released for more than a quarter of a century, it remains one of the most presented works on the screens of various channels, and it is strange that with each show the audience follows the series with the same passion without getting bored.

The series starring Nour Al-Sharif, Abla Kamel, Mohamed Riad, Hanan Turk, Nahed Rushdie, Yasser Jalal, Wafaa Sadiq and Manal Salama, and based on a novel by the late writer Ihsan Abdul Quddus, dealing with the life of a self-made businessman who started from below zero, until he became a millionaire, and the impact of his journey of rise and obscene wealth on his family and their choices in life.

Morning and evening talk

The series "Morning and Evening Talk", based on a novel by the writer Naguib Mahfouz, and treated and screenplay by Mohsen Zayed, occupies a special place among the audience, especially since the starring roles included the names of giant stars, and the plot was followed by 4 generations from several families, whose paths intersect all the time through an epic that dissects Egyptian society socially and economically.

Among the heroes of the work: Laila Alawi, Abla Kamel, Dalal Abdel Aziz, Khaled Al-Nabawy, Ahmed Khalil, Salwa Khattab, Ahmed Maher, Sawsan Badr, Mahmoud Al-Jundi, Tawfiq Abdel Hamid, and the work witnessed the birth of stars of the current era such as Reham Abdel Ghafour, Hanan Mutawa, Menna Shalabi, Ola Ghanem, Ahmed Al-Fishawi, Ahmed Rizk and others.

The epic of the nights of the dream

As befits the epic, it was the series "Layali Al-Helmiya", which ran for 5 parts starting from 1988 to 1995 before showing the sixth season in 2016.

The work is one of the wonderful icons resulting from the collaboration between writer Osama Anwar Okasha and director Ismail Abdel Hafez, in the presence of exceptional Tatar by Sayed Hijab and singing by Mohamed Helou. As for the heroes, their number exceeded 300 actors, including Yahya Al-Fakharani, Salah Al-Saadani, Safia Al-Omari, Mohsen Tawfiq, Abla Kamel, Hisham Selim, Mamdouh Abdel Alim, Elham Shaheen and Athar Al-Hakim.

The story of the work revolved around the neighborhood of "Helmeya" and its long history since the beginning of the thirties, when it was a neighborhood inhabited only by aristocrats and those in power, and with time and societal, cultural and political changes, it turned into a neighborhood that includes notables - uneducated - owners of money from the people, and then became a haven for the popular class, which is what the work reviews by addressing the conflict between the three classes through the "July Revolution" and other historical events.

Arabesque

In addition to the series "Layali Al-Helmiya", there is another drama that is no less inspiring, dealing with the Egyptian neighborhood as well and the lives of its residents, is the series "Arabesque", which was written by Osama Anwar Okasha and directed by Gamal Abdel Hamid and came from the championship of Salah Al-Saadani, Hoda Sultan, Hisham Selim, and Suhair Al-Morshedy.

The work belongs to the category of social drama, as it revolves around Hassan, an artist in the field of arabesque, who loves his profession and reveres it despite its declining importance in the eyes of people, and episode after episode we trace his life and problems and those around him, which was presented in an exceptional way characterized by human anatomy and drama to the extent that made the work turn into an important icon.

The family in the eyes of the drama of the nineties

The combination of the abstaining plain is what the comedy drama series "Saken Qasadi" was built on, which deals with the story of two neighboring families in the same building, and despite the passage of nearly 3 decades since its presentation, it is still a drama close to the heart, capable of making the viewer laugh and make his heart happy.

Because of the success of the work, its makers presented a second part, which focused on highlighting social issues and family problems through a funny and simple framework. The series was directed by Ibrahim Al-Shaqanqiri, written by Youssef Auf, and starred Filsana Jamil, Omar Al-Hariri, Khairia Ahmed and Mohammed Reda.

"The Shalash Family" is another drama-comedy series that remained stuck in the conscience, starring Salah Zulfiqar, Laila Taher and Mahmoud Al-Jundi, which shed light on the Shalash family, and the dreams of each of them, between the aspirations of new generations that are unconventional and the reactionary mentalities of adults, and how to reach a point in the middle that protects the family from the evil of division and the humiliation of friendliness.

Apart from comedy, the family was the focus of the nineties drama, which was addressed in unique and non-repetitive ways and methodologies, and among the most famous series that dealt with the family in a social manner, whether intersecting with politics or customs and traditions: the series "The Family" written by Waheed Hamed and directed by Ismail Abdel Hafez, and was starring Mahmoud Morsi, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Laila Alawi, Khairia Ahmed and others.

The events of the series took place during the war of attrition and beyond, and this affected the Egyptian street by reviewing the lives of the residents of one of the buildings and their relations with each other, it is noteworthy that the work is one of the most important Egyptian series that dealt with terrorism issues in television drama.

In the same context, the series "The Wedge" is based on the story, script and dialogue of writer Khairi Shalabi and starring Hoda Sultan, Youssef Shaaban, Fadia Abdel Ghani, Hanan Turk and Abdullah Mahmoud.

The series took place in Upper Egypt, and reviewed a family in which the mother takes control of everything, as she is the only one able to make decisions, whether about her children or their property, as all her concern is to observe customs and principles without being placed as anything else, which consequently affects their happiness and destinies.

The last family series on this list is the Syrian series "The Four Seasons", which released two seasons starting in 1999, directed by Hatem Ali, and starring Jamal Suleiman, Nabila Al-Nabulsi and Khaled Taja.

The series dealt with the daily life of the Shami family and the family relations that bind its members, reviewing their ambitions and the different aspects of life for each of them.