{"id":13476,"date":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/netflix-unveils-first-arab-original-series\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:00:00","slug":"netflix-unveils-first-arab-original-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/netflix-unveils-first-arab-original-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Unveils its First Arab Original Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The entertainment giant announced its first production in the region\u2014and we can\u2019t wait to binge watch. The series, titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jinn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is set in the ancient city of Petra and will follow the story of a group of teenagers who encounter a dark mystical figure (in the form of a boy) that\u2019s set to destroy the world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The production begins in Jordan over the coming months, and we\u2019re happy to hear that the six-part supernatural drama will feature regional talent\u2014both cast and crew (the team behind the project includes rising Lebanese director Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, who was behind the acclaimed comedy <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very Big Shot).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On casting Arab talent, Bou Chaaya said in a statement, &#8220;This is a great opportunity to portray Arab youth in a very unique way. The level of authenticity Netflix is trying to achieve with this show is definitely what attracted me the most to be part of this project\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-writer of the Oscar-nominated Jordanian drama <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theeb, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bassel Ghandour has also signed up to pen the series, adding: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is very common in Middle East that people know someone who has a Jinn story, so it\u2019s nice to take that and turn it into a fun and mysterious teen adventure that everyone can enjoy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The series is expected to be released in 2019.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entertainment giant announced its first production in the region\u2014and we can\u2019t wait to binge watch. The series, titled Jinn, is set in the ancient city of Petra and will follow the story of a group of teenagers who encounter a dark mystical figure (in the form of a boy) that\u2019s set to destroy the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4190],"tags":[5689,5690,5691,5692,5546,5126,5693],"primary_tag":[5152],"ppma_author":[4720],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4720,"user_id":19,"is_guest":0,"slug":"olfaf","display_name":"Olfa Farhat","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28edbc5427e847ff89d596a6517caa9f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13476"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=13476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}