Howa wa heya (1985)

Country

Egypt

How it feels

A married couple plays different characters in ten separate stories. Each episode is a new drama about a husband and wife.

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What happens

Howa wa Heya, (“Him and Her”, “ هو و هي” ) is an Egyptian television drama, that aired for the first time during Ramadan in 1985. It featured many prominent contemporary artists in key roles, with movie stars Soad Hosni, in her sole television role, and Ahmed Zaki. The married couple drama, or dramas rather, were written by Sanaa al-Bisi and adapted by Salah Jahin into a screenplay in a rare anthology series in Egyptian television, where the same actors played different characters and storylines in each of its ten episodes. Hosni was awarded the Transtel (now part of Deutsche Welle) Prize at the African Union of Broadcasting conference in 1985 for her role in the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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