{"id":5727,"date":"2019-05-06T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:10:01","slug":"iraqi-tv-drama-the-hotel-is-the-first-series-filmed-in-the-country-in-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=5727","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi TV drama \u201cThe Hotel,\u201d is the first series filmed in the country in 7 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>After a 7 year break, Iraqi TV is now returning to our screens. &#8220;The Hotel,&#8221; is a twenty-episode series which depicts Baghdad&#8217;s seedy underbelly of human trafficking. The show will be aired during the Holy Month of Ramadan and will give Iraqis a homegrown series to watch for the first time in years as the country moves into one of its most stable periods this decade.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about &#8220;The Hotel,&#8221; screenwriter Hamed Al Maliki \u201cIt\u2019s a current matter for Iraq,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a message to the youth to beware of the trap of human trafficking, and it\u2019s a message to the Iraqi state to care for the innocent and the poor who are the victims of the trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The show&#8217;s director, Hassan Hosni said, &#8220;The Iraqi people are parched for drama. We were all waiting for this moment \u2014 writers, directors and actors \u2014 with total impatience,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After moving to Saudi Arabia, locals were stunned to see Hosni back in Iraq. He said,&#8221;I felt it in the streets, when we were scouting for locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The star of the show, also returned to Iraq for the first time in 20 years to film. Mahmoud Abu Al-Abbas, went into exile in 1997 after he performed a one-man play thats commentary focused on the harassment by the country&#8217;s notorious security services. 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