Ahl al Gharam, The People of Love in English, is a Syrian Drama that gained a lot of attention and became very popular about two or so years ago. Ahl al Gharam is back now with a new season of love and romance. The new season started a couple of months ago, and they have been airing an hour or so long episode once a week on Thursday nights. Each episode tells a story of a relationship or of some type of love or difficulties. There is a large amount of actors in this drama including Kosay al Khouly, Dima Andaleft, Basil Khayat, Laura Abu Asaad, and many more. The stories and topics of the episodes differ and they portray Syrian society, or in specific Damascene society.Yet sometimes the actors or rather the writer and the director of Ahl al Gharam puts some twists in the typical Damascene Society. For example, we see single girls coming back to their parents house in the early morning, coming back from night clubs and restaurants, while they are out with a group of friends consisting of guys and girls. The parents are perfectly alright with this and welcome the girl with open arms. However, this is not Damascene society, because the girl that is seen going out like this will get talked about by people and her reputation will be in the ground. There are many examples of this type that are putting a modern twist in our society that may be there and may not. When a girl behaves like this, people will say that she has not been raised right and that she is "faltanay". I do not know how to define this in English, but it kind of means that she doesn't care of the customs and that she doesn't respect the society that she lives in.
There may be a lot of these cases, where our society is getting modern yet I never see it in real life when I am in Damascus. Anyway, Ahl al Gharam portrays these acts as normal, yet I do not know how the Arabic World is responding to it. What do you think? Is it too modern or is the society changing?
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Hey! How are you?? I'm fine, have had soo much schoolwork lately though, lol. :~S
From the sounds of it, that show sounds a little exaggerated to me...I mean, Arab nations are getting more modern, but it's not to THAT extent. People still value culture and tradition and the society they live in, so if a girl were like that, I'm sure, typically, any average Arab parents would not be so okay with it, unless they're more laid back. :~P The show is probably trying to portray the life in a looser fashion, maybe, to entertain and appeal to more audiences? I think they should make a more accurate representation, so it's easier to relate to, but the show sounds interesting! :~D
By the way, for your last blog, the beginning of that song was really funny!! Just the girl acting like she's so cool and everything and then the guy crashing, haha. loool!
Great articles--keep 'em coming! :~) Adios!
--Lulu
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Hey ..! OMG!! i Love this show but i totally agree with lulu.. a normal average parent would never be ok with that :P but i still like it .. :P
btw: any good shows HELP!! plus: Balqees is so boring xp!!
Balqees. =)
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