Scripted series · MBC 5
Al Hayba: Ras Al Jabal
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Al Hayba: Ras Al Jabal actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Al Hayba: Ras Al Jabal reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Spectacle.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Yasmina returns with her son from Montreal to Morocco to bury her husband, but Ra's Al Jabal traps her in a world of trafficking and tribal power, ruled by her brother-in-law Layl, the village's feared kingpin.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Anwar Sadek SabbahProducer
- Rafic ElzeinExecutive Producer
Writing
- Basma El HijriWriter
Direction
- Ayoub LahnoudDirector
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