- Source: Akoon Aw La
Akoon Aw La (Arabic: أكون أو لا, lit. "To Be or Not to Be") is a Bahraini television series directed by Aly Al Aly and written by Hussain al-Mahdi.
Synopsis
In a small village on the outskirts of a city in the 1990s, forty-something woman Amna’s husband dies of a terminal illness. She decides to continue in his line of work and raises their sons, the benevolent Salem and the wily Aziz. She Amna also takes in her niece Khadija after the death of her wealthy merchant father, leading Aziz to seduce his cousin for her fortune. When Amna has Salem marry Khadija instead, Aziz concocts schemes to discredit Khadija. They are foiled, and Aziz is arrested and imprisoned with his accomplice, the mukhtar (village elder) Sheikh Abdul Malik.
Cast
Basma Hamada as Amna
Khaled Amin as Aziz ibn Amna
Hamad Al Omani as Salem ibn Amna
Somoud Alkandari as Saja, niece of Amna
Buthaina Al Raisi as Khadija, niece of Amna
Salah Al-Mulla as Mustapha
Ibrahim Al-Hsawi as Sheikh Abdul Malik
Aseel Omran as Soraya
Laila Abdullah as Radia
Ahmed Issa as Hamza
Shamaa Mohammed as Soraya’s mother
Mubarak Khamis as Hamed
Sami Rashdan as Fathy
Samira Al Wahaibi as Salma
Shayma Janahi as Bashayer
Shaima Sabt as Iman
Amina Al Qafaas
Ali Al-Jabri as Abu Halala
Hussain Al-Jamri as Majid
Muhammad Al-Saffar as Sheikh Hani
References
External links
El Cinema page
