Add/Update Information: Series - Rifa'a al-Tahtawi - 1987


    Basic Details

    Title رفاعة الطهطاوي
    Title in English Rifaa Al Tahtawy
    Title's Translation Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
    Original Title
    Release Year 1987
    Runtime 45
    Category Series
    Subcategory
    Status Released
    Is this a coloured title? Yes
    Egyptian Censorship
    MPAA Censorship
    Movie Budget 0
    Poster
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    Release Date
    18 November 1987 Egypt No
    Genre
    Drama
    Biography
    History
    Country
    Egypt
    Language
    Arabic
    Region
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    Cast

    Section Actor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Samir Al Banna 1
    2) Shokry Sarhan 2
    3) Anwar Ismail 3
    4) Zein El Ashmawy 4
    5) Huda Ramzi 5
    6) Tahani Rashed 6
    7) Nermin Kamal 7
    8) Ahmad Rateb 8
    9) Ahmad Maher 9
    10) Sami Sarhan 10
    11) Aida Kamel 11
    12) Souad Hussein 12
    13) Nadia Ezzat 13
    14) Islam Fares 14
    15) Moustafa Rizk 15
    16) Abdel Salaam El Dahshan 16
    17) Abbas Mansour 17
    18) Nader Nour Alddin 18
    19) Reda Hamed 20
    20) Nasser Seif 23
    21) Sahar Talaat 23
    22) Gihan Farid 26
    23) Sanaa Suliman 27
    24) Thuraya Ibrahim 28
    25) Mohammad Abdel Aziz 29
    26) Fouad El Melegi 30
    27) Amr Mohammed Ali 31
    28) Abdel Ghany Nasser 33
    29) Ezzat Abduljawwad 34
    30) Muhammad Tawfiq 36
    31) Magdy Idris 37
    32) Reda Al Jammal 40
    33) Samir Fahmy 41
    34) Ahmad Fawzy 99
    35) Sameh Medhat / Sameh El Sherif 103
    36) Abdullah Hefni 104
    37) Mohamed Abdel Wahab 106
    38) Zakaria Suleiman 107
    39) Farouq Ramadan 108
    40) Abdulhadi Anwar 109
    41) Mohamed Imam 111
    42) Ahmed Hegazi 112
    43) Ahmed Al Sharif 113
    44) Lotfy Abdel Hamid 114
    45) Mohamed Abo El Enein 115
    46) Mohamed Mansour 118
    47) Mustafa Abdullah 119
    48) Ibrahim Hassanin 120
    49) Reda Idrees 121
    50) Makram El Masry 122
    51) Moheb Kaser 123
    52) Hassan Othman 124
    53) Maha Tawfik 125
    54) Naguib Abdo 126
    55) Hassanian Sorour 127
    56) Mohamed Mahmoud 128
    57) Sahar Kamel 129
    58) Abdel Rahman Hamed 130
    59) Kawthar Ramzi 131
    60) Aatef Tantawi 132
    61) Azza Bakir 133
    62) Fathiya Abdulghani 134
    63) Ahmad Jaber 135
    64) Onsi El Masri 137
    65) Ahmed Shokry 138
    66) Ali Gamal El Din 139
    67) Ibrahim Omran 141
    68) Farouk Salem 142
    69) Tariq Raihan 143
    70) Mahmoud El Hefnawy 144
    71) Nazzmi Rezk 145
    72) Ahmad Hussein 146
    73) Nuhad Rami 147
    74) Abdel Hameed Anees 148
    75) Ahmad Kamali 150
    76) Ahmed Ezzat 151
    77) Mostafa Hashem 152
    78) Qassem El Daly 153
    79) Anwar Hassouna 154
    80) Abdullah Al Safati 156
    81) Nabaweya Saaid 157
    82) Khairi Shawki 158
    83) Ahmed Bahloul 159
    84) Samir Hussein 161
    85) Ahmed Al-Saadani 162
    86) Mahmoud Elwan 163
    87) Abdulraheem Hassan 164
    88) Ehab Mohammad 165
    89) Sabri El Hawwari 166
    90) Essam Abu Ghraib 168
    91) Mostafa El Sayed 169
    92) Ahmed Attiya 170
    93) Medhat Ghaly 171
    94) Mohammad Atris 172
    95) Abdel Wahab Al Hadidi 173
    96) Abdel Salam Attiya 174
    97) Firas Ibrahim 175
    98) Hamada Shusha 176
    99) Hamdy Morsi 177

    Section Director

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Nour El Demerdash Director 1
    2) Maryam El Gazairely Director 2
    3) Mohamed Ali Al Farjani Assistant Director 3
    4) Mona Hosny 4

    Section Writer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Hassan Muhsab Story & Screenplay 1
    2) Mohamed Abu Al Kheir Scriptwriter 2

    Section Producer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) TV & Radio Union (Egypt) Producer 1

    Section Other

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Mosaad Khodeir 2

    Section Cinematographer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Osama Abdel Fatah 2

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    Synopsis

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    Asma Hamed The story of Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi, one of the most important figures during the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha, as he goes on a scholarship to study different languages and returns to Egypt to revolutionize translation work. 218

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    Episodes

    Season Episode Duration Title Summaries Video Options
    1 1 45 1st Episode Rifa'a and his parents flee from Tahta to Nidah after the...Read more Mamluk attack, after which the Mamluks find Badawi, Rifa'a's father, and seize everything he owns. 156
    1 2 45 2nd Episode As Badawi falls ill and becomes unable to work, Rifa'a is...Read more forced to work in farming behind his father’s back. Years pass by and Rifa'a becomes a young man. 155
    1 3 45 3rd Episode Rifa'a travels to Cairo to enroll in Al-Azhar. Ibrahim,...Read more Muhammad Ali’s son, returns after achieving great victories and conquests for his father’s army. 152
    1 4 45 4th Episode When Muhammad gets arrested, Rifa'a turns to Hasan and Abd...Read more al-Rahman to intervene and get him out. Rifa'a passes Al-Azhar's exams and joins it. 143
    1 5 45 5th Episode After 7 years of studying at Al-Azhar, Rifa'a is appointed...Read more to teach at the Mohammed Lazoglu School. Rifa'a refuses to marry Sharifa, while Safinaz falls in love with him. 170
    1 6 45 6th Episode After Muhammad Ali refuses to let Egyptians study at the...Read more Mohammed Lazoglu School of Translators, and decides to limit the study of languages to the Turks and Circassians, Rifa’a refuses to teach there. Karima confesses to her teacher Zahira her love for Rifa’a. 262
    1 7 45 7th Episode Hasan marries Sharifa after Rifa'a refuses to marry her,...Read more while the latter tries to convince his uncle Muhammad to wed him his daughter Karima. 142
    1 8 45 8th Episode Hasan al-Attar convinces Muhammad Ali to send Egyptians on...Read more scientific expeditions. As Hasan chooses Rifa'a, Tantawi and al-Tunisi to go on an expedition to France, Rifa'a decides to postpone his marriage to Karima. 214
    1 9 45 9th Episode Rifa'a begins studying French to ensure that he goes on the...Read more expedition, whereupon he wins the grand prize for translation and travels on the France expedition. 159
    1 10 45 10th Episode As news of Rifa’a stops coming in, Karima suspects that he...Read more married a French woman. When Rifa’a returns to Cairo, he is appointed as a translator at the School of Medicine, and marries Karima. 191
    1 11 45 11th Episode Rifa'a is distressed by Sacura's reservations about his work...Read more at the School of Medicine, whereupon Sacura refers Rifa’a to the Disciplinary Council for disobeying orders. Meanwhile, he writes his first book ‘A Paris Profile’. 224
    1 12 45 12th Episode Ghobash asks Rifa'a to help him reach the governor and...Read more recover his stolen land. The governor, Muhammad Ali, offers a large reward and a plot of land in Tahta to Rifa'a. 168
    1 13 45 13th Episode The governor agrees to Rifa'a's idea to establish Al-Alsun...Read more School of Translation and appoints him as its principal. Ghobash asks Rifa'a to help him persuade Safinaz to marry him. As years pass by, Rifa'a becomes a father and his children grow up. 246
    1 14 45 14th Episode Hasan al-Attar becomes the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar. As...Read more Muhammad Ali’s condition deteriorates after being pressed hard by foreign countries, he suffers from dementia, and Ibrahim plans to take over the rule instead of his father. 229
    1 15 45 15th Episode After Muhammad Ali’s illness and subsequent death, Ibrahim...Read more takes over, then Abbas succeds Ibrahim. Rumors spread of Abbas’s wish to remove Rifa’a from his positions due to his neglect of the Turkish language, whereupon Abbas issues a decision to close down Al-Alsun School. 273
    1 16 45 16th Episode Abbas banishes Rifa'a to Sudan, where he’d be the head of an...Read more elementary school. When Sa’id succeeds Abbas, Rifa'a's hopes of returning to Egypt are renewed. 156
    1 17 45 17th Episode Sa’id appoints Rifa'a as an assistant to the head of the...Read more Military School, Soliman al-Faransawi. But when the latter falls ill and steps down from his role as principal, Sa’id appoints Rifa'a as director of the Military School. 226
    1 18 45 18th Episode Rifa'a establishes a department for translation and heritage...Read more preservation and makes Arabic a primary language in the Military School. Sa'id removes Rifa'a from office upon his demands to re-establish the Bureau of Schools. 222
    1 19 45 19th Episode Sa’id, with the help of de Lesseps, lays the foundation...Read more stone for the building of the Suez Canal, with France as a usufructuary. Isma’il succeeds Sa’id after his death. 168
    1 20 45 Finale As Rifa'a establishes a department to translate French laws,...Read more he clashes with Isma'il's entourage, whereupon he starts editing Rawdat Al Madaris magazine to educate young people. Rifa'a's remarkable journey finally comes to an end. 230