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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-05-13

Place of Birth

Syria

Nizar Abu Hajar

Biography

Nizar Abu Hajar (نزار أبو حجر) is a Syrian actor. His family is from the city of Majdal in Palestine, but relocated to Syria after the Nakba.

Known for

Hammam AlQishani

Hammam AlQishani

The series goes into details of the events that Syria went through between the years 1955-1959, including the tripartite aggression against Egypt in 1956, the establishment of unity between Syria and Egypt, and the revolution against the monarchy in Iraq, through the Qishani neighborhood, where its people work as merchants, lawyers, doctors, intellectuals and other works.

Salah Al-Deen Al-Ayoubi

Salah Al-Deen Al-Ayoubi

A sweeping historical epic tracing the life of Saladin from his humble origins to his unification of fractured Muslim kingdoms and his legendary recapture of Jerusalem from the Crusaders after nearly a century of occupation. Starring Jamal Suleiman and directed by the late Hatem Ali, written by Walid Seif — the same partnership behind Palestinian Alienation — this is widely regarded as one of the finest historical dramas in Arabic television, epic in scale yet deeply human in its portrayal of leadership, faith and sacrifice.

Messages of Love and War

Messages of Love and War

Jalal is imprisoned on trumped-up political charges. As he breaks out of prison and crosses the Lebanese borders, he meets his Palestinian friend, Qassem, who is a member of the resistance against the Israelis. Jalal's wife gets the court to grant her divorce in absentia to marry Colonel Nazem.

Diaries of a General Manager

Diaries of a General Manager

A journalist working in the same newspaper as her husband, and intellectual conflict arises between them because of the differences between the nature of men and women. The series shows the relationship between the spouses, revealing many attitudes of the “Eastern Man”.

A Hero From This Time

A Hero From This Time

The series revolves around a poor man who wants to get rich. As he has a dream that he has found a treasure, his social status changes as he goes out every night to abandoned areas and begins digging and goes home by day to rest.

Sert Alhob

Sert Alhob

Akrekoz's Girls

Akrekoz's Girls

The story of the work revolves around four girls and their mothers waiting for their traveling father throughout the episodes of the series and they have a uncle, a former ministerial candidate with a good financial income. In each episode, the family is exposed to funny situations and exciting adventures within a funny family template.

Jamil and Hanaa's Diaries

Jamil and Hanaa's Diaries

The story of Jamil Al-Homsi, who is shy around women, which explains his wife Hanaa's lack of jealousy. This drives him to invent many ways to make her jealous and force her to pay more attention to him, which gets him into many comedic situations.

Abu Janti (King of taxi/ King of lancer)

Abu Janti (King of taxi/ King of lancer)

Abu Janti — self-proclaimed "King of the Lancer" — is a Damascus taxi driver whose cab doubles as a confessional, comedy club and social mirror. Each episode brings a new passenger with a new story, and Abu Janti can't help but get involved. Written by and starring Samer El Masri, born from a beloved sketch on Spotlight (2003), this Syrian black comedy uses the taxi as a window into everyday Damascus life — funny, sharp and occasionally heartbreaking.

We'll Meet Tomorrow

We'll Meet Tomorrow

Life returns to a building abandoned after the Lebanese Civil War when it becomes a temporary haven for Syrian refugees, as war ravages their homeland.

Ayamana Alhulwa

Ayamana Alhulwa

A Syrian social drama series that sheds light on a neighborhood in one of the slums in the vicinity of Damascus, around a poor family consisting of a mother and her four children, who strive to meet their needs and achieve their ambitions with the tools available to them, while focusing on solving future problems at the time, leaving them to chance, luck, mischief, whim, or influence.

Holding Back Tears

Holding Back Tears

The series examines the change in the composition of the Syrian family, through the life of a number of Damascene families that are connected by a number of intertwining relationships, as love blossoms between the lawyer Riyad El Emary and the interior designer Riad El Merady.

Law, However

Law, However

The series explores the difficult circumstances faced by people from diverse backgrounds and professions, including a university professor, a new journalist, a low-income employee, and others. The central character is the general manager of a large, responsible construction company, where the potential for illicit gain is significant. He is a fickle man, a master of manipulation, who feigns honor and morality because he respects the law out of sheer fear of it—the core premise of the show. The series unfolds in a satirical, socially relevant, and humorous style, relying on witty situations to elicit a smile.

Rijal Al-Izz

Rijal Al-Izz

Rijal Al-Izz — Men of Honor — is a 2011 Syrian Damascene period drama set in the Saroujeh neighborhood of Damascus during the French occupation of the 1930s. The series follows Abd Al-Rahman Al-Shami, a wrongfully accused man who escapes a death sentence and transforms into a resistance fighter, striking fear into the French occupiers while navigating betrayal and injustice within his own community. Starring Rashid Assaf and Qusai Khouli.

My Family's House

My Family's House

تدور أحداث المسلسل في فترة الأربعينيات من القرن الماضي حول صراع محتدم ينشأ بعد خروج (نوري) من السجن وتمركزه في حارة دمشقية تشهد اغتيال الطبيب ذائع الصيت "عبد الرحمن الشهبندر" واختفاء أحد وجهاء الحارة، حيث يحاول "نوري" كشف الألغاز وسط صراعات على النفوذ والطمع والحب. Set in the 1940s, the series revolves around a fierce conflict that erupts after Nuri is released from prison and settles in a Damascene neighborhood where the renowned doctor “Abdul Rahman al-Shahbandar” is assassinated and the disappearance of one of the neighborhood’s prominent figures. “Nouri” attempts to unravel these mysteries amid conflicts over power, greed, and love.