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الحاجز الزجاجي

الحاجز الزجاجي poster

How it feels

After his father loses his farmland to floods, a young man named Mahmoud moves to Cairo to continue his education. There he meets his neighbor Fatima, but his cousin Hassan proposes to her first and she marries him against her will.

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What happens

الحواجز الزجاجة مسلسل تلفزيوني مصري عرض عام 1974 يُصاب "محمود" بصدمة شديدة بعد أن يفقد والده المزارع أرضه نتيجة السيول، ويقرر أن يستكمل تعليمه حتى يساعد والده، ويتوجه إلى القاهرة للدراسة وهناك يتعرف على جارته "فاطمة" التي تتعلق بحبه، لكن ابن عمه الميكانيكي "حسن" يسبقه ويطلب يدها للزواج بعد أن حاول الاعتداء عليها، فتتزوج منه رغمًا عنها. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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