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Al-Rawi

Al-Rawi poster
Genre
children's television series
Country
Egypt

How it feels

This Egyptian animated series follows a narrator named Noureddin who tells stories from Islamic history to a young prince named Shehab. The show uses classical Arabic to recount key historical events.

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What happens

Al-Rawi (Arabic: الراوي, lit. “The Narrator”) is an Egyptian animated series recounting key events in Islamic history in Classical Arabic. The story's eponymous “Narrator” is named Noureddin, and he tells his stories to the young Prince Shehab. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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