The Definitive Guide to Living in the Capital , Cairo , Egypt

Starring: Nour El Sherif, Hala Sedky, Ahmed Badir & Dalal Abdel Aziz.
Airing On: Hayat

An Arabic language teacher living abroad returns to his small hometown in Egypt and has to learn how to deal with the way society changed in his absence – the hard way.

Starring: Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mahmoud El Guindy, Ezzat Abo Ouf & Aida Riyadh.
Airing On: Mehwar, Hayat, CBC.

Starring: Asser Yassin, Intisar, Salah Abdallah & Kinda Alloush.
Airing On: CBC.

An Egyptian official stationed in Tel Aviv has his assets frozen by the Israeli government. In retaliation, he returns to Egypt and assembles a team to sneak into Israel via the Gaza tunnels and rob a bank.

Starring: Adel Imam, Mohammed Imam, Ahmed El Saadany & Haitham Zaki.
Airing On: Nahar, Hayat, Masreyya, MBC.

Starring: Siba Mubarak, Houreyya Farghali, Dina El Shirbeeny and Reham Ayman.
Airing On: MBC, Dream.

A man is framed for the attempted assassination of a high ranking governmental official. Unaware of the reason behind his arrest and in the state security’s custody, he tries to escape.

Starring: Karim Abd El Aziz, Abla Kamel & Dalal Abdel Aziz.
Airing On: Dream, Nile Drama.

Starring: Khaled El Nabawy, Mohammed Nagaty, Ola Ghanem & Menna Fadaly.
Airing On: Nahar, Masreyya.

This might as well be called Catfight part 2.  Having aired to both popularity and disgust last Ramadan, two women fight over the love of a man – again – in a slapstick embarrassment.

Starring: Fifi Abdo, Nabeila Ebeid, Ahmed Badir & Ahmed Salama.
Airing On: Nahar.

Starring: Yehia El Fakharany, Salah Abdallah, Sawsan Badr & Maha Abu Ouf.
Airing On: Hayat, MBC.

Starring: Amr Saad, Hala Fakher, Sawsan Badr & Edward.
Airing On: Hayat.

Starring: Ahmad El Sa’a, Ahmed El Saadany, Mohammed Imam.
Airing On: Rotana, Nahar, Nile Drama.

A lawyer married to an abusive drug addict battles to get a divorce so she can marry her lover.

Starring: Ghada Abdel Razek, Maged El Masry, Ahmed Rateb & Tarek Lotfy.
Airing On: CBC.

Starring: Leila Elwy, Sawsan Badr & Sameh El Sereiti.
Airing On: Rotana.

Separated-at-birth twins, unaware of the other’s existence and raised in different religions – one Muslim, the other Christian – meet as adults. The show puts a magnifying glass to the Muslim-Christian tensions in Egyptian society.

Starring: Hanan Turk, Samy El Adl & Mahmoud El Guindy.
Airing On: Nahar.

Starring: Samer Ismail, Ghassan Massoud & Samer Omran.
Airing On: MBC.

Another show taking its inspiration from the recent unravelling of Egyptian politics, a politician faces problems when she decides to take a stance against corruption.

Starring: Ilham Chahine, Mostafa Fahmy, Tamer Hagras & Nada Bassiouny.
Airing On: Hayat.

Ali, a young lawyer, gets a mysterious phone call that challenges his beliefs and everything he stands for. As his problems start piling up, he discovers that sticking to his morals may not be as easy as he once thought especially when he starts having doubts about even those closest to him. 

Starring: Youssef El Sherif, Mahmoud El Guindy & Edward.
Airing On: CBC, Melody Drama, El Qahera Wel Nas.

Based on a true story, the show discusses a mission carried out by the Egyptian equivalent of the CIA in Tel Aviv between 1957 and 1972.

Starring: Sherif Mounir, Sherine Reda, Rania Mallah & Ezzat Abu Ouf.
Airing On: Hayat, Nile Drama

An economics professor who is militantly against economic imperialism finds herself entangled with dirty-business types who don’t approve of her message and will go to great lengths to stop her.

Starring: Ghada Adel, Samy El Adl, Maya Nasry & Arwa Gouda.
Airing On: Masreyya, Nile Drama, Nahar.

Starring: Yousra, Samir Ghanem, Ragaa El Gedawy & Aida Riyadh.
Airing On: Mehwar, Nahar, Nile Drama.

Three guys, hell bent on becoming rich, get mixed up with a con man known as The General. They start to work for him but then decide to split when they find out that he hadn’t been paying them fairly – a decision that doesn’t sit right with him at all.

Starring: Mahmoud Abdel Moghny, Amir Karara, Hana Sheeha & Amr Youssef.
Airing On: CBC, Mehwar, Nahar, El Qahera Wel Nas.

Starring: Hend Sabry, Yousra El Lozy & Nahed El Sebai.
Airing On: Dream.

After serving a jail sentence for a crime that he didn’t do, Ali is released only to find his girlfriend married to another man. He soon falls in love with another though, only to have his social standing keep them apart.

Starring: Youssef El Sherif, Dorra, Hany Adel & Salah Abdallah.
Airing On: Rotana, Hayat, Nahar.

A ravenous, insatiable businessman tries to twist Islam to suit his whims and becomes a polygamist.

Starring: Mostafa Shaaban, Ola Ghanem, Hassan Hosny & Heba Magdy.
Airing On: Melody Drama, Rotana, CBC.