UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan has issued an order to stop broadcasting a soap opera on Abu Dhabi Television in response to appeals by several Arab tribes, official news agency WAM reported on Tuesday.
The 30-episode drama, entitled ‘Sadoun Al-Awaji’, tells the story of Sheikh Sadoun Al-Awaji who was born in the north of Arabian Peninsula in 1750.
It stars Syrian actor Rashid Assaf, along with co-stars from Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, WAM said.
The drama was shot in the Syrian city of Tadmur, near the ancient ruins of Palmyra, a location which resembles the areas in which the Anza, the tribe of Al-Awaj, lived, it added.
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