Farouk Omar (TV series)
| Farouk Omar Hz. Ömer عُمَرْ |
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| Also known as | Farouk Omar, Omar Series |
| Genre | Biography, drama, religion, history, serial |
| Based on | Omar bin al-Khattab a.k.a. Omar al-Farouk or Caliph Omar I |
| Directed by | Hatem Ali |
| Starring |
Samer Ismail Ghassan Massoud Hassan Al-Jundi Muna Wassef Fethi Haddaoui Jay Abdo Suzan Najm Aldeen |
| Voices of | Assad Khalifa (Omar) |
| Composer(s) | Walid Saif |
| Country of origin | Arab World/Qatar |
| Original language(s) | Arabic |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 31 |
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| Producer(s) | MBC Group, Qatar TV |
| Location(s) | Saudi Arabia, Morocco |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Budget | 200 million SAR |
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| Original network | MBC1, Qatar TV, Nessma TV, Atv,MNCTV, Nour TV |
| Picture format | HDTV |
| Original release | July 20 – August 18, 2012 |
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Omar (Arabic: عُمَرْ) or Farouk Omar (Persian: عمر فاروق) is a historicalArab television drama miniseries-serial that was produced and broadcast by MBC1 and directed by Hatem Ali. Co-produced by Qatar TV, the series is based on the life of Omar ibn Al-Khattab, the second Caliph of Islam, and depicts his life from 18 years old until the moments of his death. The series had to face large controversy due to its depiction of Omar, Abu Bakr, Uthman and Ali, the four Rashidun Caliphs, along with other characters, who some Muslims believe should not be depicted, much like the Prophet Mohammad. The series consists of 30 episodes and was originally aired in the month of Ramadan since July 20, 2012. It was made at a cost of 200 million Saudi riyals and filmed in Morocco, primarily in the cities of Marakesh, Tangiers, El Jadida, Casablanca and Mohammedia. After the series was broadcast on MBC, it was dubbed into several languages for international broadcast and subtitled in English on YouTube; it received great support from many different scholarly bodies and people watching it. As the series depended largely on reliable historical established facts, the series did not face criticism in terms of its content, as past films faced.The series starts with one of the pilgrimage of caliph Omar where he delivers speeches to the pilgrims. The next scene comes with an exploration on Mecca of the caliph where he emotionally flashbacks to his own 18 year's life when he was a young boy working for his rude father Khattab ibn Nufayl. The flashback perspective of Omar shows all the past story of his life from when he was a wrestler, a businessman and above all one of the leaders of the Quraish, and then to his life after his conversion into Islam being one of the closest companions of prophet Muhammad and an immensely devoted believer, a brave inspiration for all the contemporary Muslims and a bold warrior in all the contemporary Islamic battles. The story goes through the Meccan victory, the prophet's death, Abu Bakr's legacy as caliph and his death, and finally Omar's legacy. From viewer's eye perspective, his legacy as caliph shows the biographical stories of improvements and complexities of his own caliphate till his death through assassination by Abu Lulu.
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