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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1964-05-01

Place of Birth

Kirkuk, Iraq

Bassem Qahar

Biography

An Iraqi actor and director, born in Baghdad in 1963. He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts, Theater Department, in 1985. His artistic career began in 1986 through theater, where he participated in numerous plays and television series. In 2008, Basim Qahar directed his first play, Arabia, followed by several other plays, including Kahrab and The Drunken Days. Among his most notable TV series are Mulook Al-Tawaif (2005), Mawlana Al-Asheq (2015), Sadeeq Al-Omr (2014), and Al-Dawla Al-Amika (2022).

Known for

Kalabsh

Kalabsh

Selim al-Ansary is a morally-conscious police officer who is talented at his job. He is constantly criticized by those around him, even his mother, and is perceived as an evil person. When a murder inside the police station unjustly points to him as a suspect, he gets arrested, but he decides to escape to prove his innocence.

Ferqet Naji Atallah

Ferqet Naji Atallah

A retired Egyptian officer working at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv decides to plot revenge against Israel for freezing his bank accounts when he objected to its monstrous conduct in Palestine. In Egypt, he recruits five of his former students to rob Israel’s largest bank.

Counterattack

Counterattack

Based on records of the Egyptian intelligence agency, the story follows Saif and Dina who carry out a series of secret operations to expose terrorist plots that seek to divide the Arab region and spread Al-Qaeda’s influence in the world.

Al Zahir Baybars

Al Zahir Baybars

The life and exploits of al-Zahir Baibars, Sultan of Egypt and the Levant, his journey from being a slave to Prince Ala’ al-Din al-Bunduqari, until he became sultan, and the many important events he was involved in, like the fall of Baghdad at the hands of Mongol commander Hulagu Khan, and the battle of Ain Jalut.

Tayee

Tayee

An Egyptian doctor becomes a police informant and uses his rare gift of tracking ancient artifacts in the smuggling business.

Till the Last Breath

Till the Last Breath

A female engineer (played by Yasmine Abdel-Aziz) is married to a police officer and has a daughter and a son. Together they lead a family life that is unique to their different characters and their day-to-day coping with life's events is as interesting as it is dramatic.

El Nos

El Nos

Everything changes in the life of (Abdulaziz Al-Noss) and he turns from just a notorious pickpocket to a popular hero, after he established a national resistance movement against the English occupation, in which many people from different sectors of society join, and events follow.

Lifelong Friend

Lifelong Friend

The historic relationship between former president, Gamal Abdel Nasser and the commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces, field marshal Abdel Hakim Amer during the period 1956-1967, from the time they were classmates at the military academy and through the July Revolution. It also exposes the story of the field marshal’s marriage to actress Berlanti Abdel Hamid.

Kings of Sects

Kings of Sects

The series follows the rupture of Andalusia into many warring states, which allowed the northern Kingdom of Castile to expand its borders and take control.

الحوت

الحوت

The Knower

The Knower

The film tackles cybercrime through the story of Younis, a man who lives with his wife and their baby girl, as he decides to rob a bank through the internet, but then finds himself chased by a dangerous gang.

The Red Zone

The Red Zone

As the archaeologist Yousef returns to Baghdad after years abroad, he soon finds himself embroiled in trouble after he kills the husband of his neighbor, Rahma, in self-defense. As Yousef and Rahma hide the body, they receive a threat from someone who has a video of the crime.

deep state

deep state

New Baghdad

New Baghdad

The life of a veteran journalist is derailed after he finds himself accused of a crime, meanwhile he starts rediscovering his relationships with others and the city of Baghdad which is going to reveal its other face that he tried to ignore

The Spider

The Spider

A dangerous drug dealer, who manages to manufacture new drugs, sells them, and falls into many problems and chases by the police.