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Al-Rawi (TV series)

Egyptian animated television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ35588246 ↗
Source-derived summary

Al-Rawi (Arabic: الراوي, lit. “The Narrator”) is an Egyptian animated series recounting key events in Islamic history in Classical Arabic. The story's eponymous “Narrator” is named Noureddin, and he tells his stories to the young Prince Shehab.

Synopsis

The plot centers on a man who uses science to become King Imad al-Din's vizier. Threatened by Imad al-Din's jealousy, the scientist foments war between Imad al-Din and Noureddin, a jailed former king.

Crew

Major Arab actors participated in the voice cast, including Yousuf Shaaban, Sawsan Badr, Alaa Morsy, Hassan Abdel Fattah, Khaled Saleh, and Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra. Sameh Mustafa was the director.

Editorial summary

“Al-Rawi (TV series)” enters the record as egyptian animated television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Al-Rawi, series and Egyptian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 102-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Al-Rawi, series and Egyptian.
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“Al-Rawi (TV series)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Al-Rawi, series and Egyptian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q35588246. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Al-Rawi (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.