Al Daferi News Today

Yasir Alyasiri’s Red Sea Festival opener offers more visual than narrative invention in a fantasy tale of humans and their invisible jinn neighbors.

The eight-part series focus on the true story of a notorious Saudi Arabian criminal in the 1980s. The show, which will premiere on July 9, is the brainchild of British television screenwriter, Tony Jordan, known for Hustle and EastEnders, who wrote the show alongside Sheikha Suha Al Khalifa and Richard Bellamy. The series tells the story of a convicted murderer and drug trafficker, who was finally caught by police in the late 1980s. It will centre on a young police officer named Fahd who makes ...