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Ash-Shatat (2003)

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Syria
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How it feels

This series tells the story of the Palestinian diaspora from the 1940s onward. It follows multiple characters and families as they are displaced and scattered across different countries.

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What happens

Ash-Shatat (Arabic: الشتات, lit. 'The Diaspora'; also transliterated Al Shatat) is a 29-part Syrian television series, produced in 2003 by a private Syrian film company, Linn, at a cost of $5.1m. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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