Kingdoms of Fire

Name: Kingdoms of Fire
Genre: War & Politics, Drama
Cast: Khaled El Nabawy, Ramez Al-Aswad, Mahmoud Nasr, Rashid Assaf, Abdel Moneim Amayri

TV series
2019
1 season
MBC 1
War & Politics
Drama

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A historical look on the last days of the Mamluk Sultanate before its fall to the Ottoman conquest in the 16th century and how Egypt and the Sham were incorporated into the Ottoman empire.

About the show

Kingdoms of Fire (Arabic: ممالك النار, romanized: Mamalik Al-Nar) is an Arabic Anti-Ottoman historical drama television series about the reign of the Ottoman Empire's Selim I and the Mamluk Sultanate's Tuman bay II, created by Muhammed Abdulmalik and directed by British director Peter Webber.

The 14-episode series was produced by Genomedia Studios with a budget of $40 million, financed and supported by the government of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the originator of the series, and filmed in Tunisia. It debuted on MBC channels on 17 November 2019.

Fatima Bhutto of Foreign Policy wrote that the show is "an expensive salvo against Turkey’s cultural neo-Ottomanism" and that the director was chosen for "added cachet".

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