Acting
Kouka, born Tahia Ibrahim Belal, was an Egyptian dancer and actress.
(Rabha) is a Bedouin girl from a fanatical tribe. She meets by chance a young man from the city while he is on a hunting trip. Love grows between them and they agree to marry. However, her tribe does not approve of their daughter’s marriage to a non-Bedouin young man, and they decide to marry her to her cousin, so Rabha escapes from the tribe to her lover. On her wedding day, her lover, Nabil, decides to kidnap her and let her live with him despite the social difference.
Shadad sends his son Antarah to herd sheep after he refuses to acknowledge him as his son because of his dark skin and his mother is a slave and refuses to wed Antarah to his cousin Abla. When Banu Abs is invaded by another tribe, they enlist Antarah's help in exchange for allowing him to marry Abla.
Hoda is a famous dancer who gives up the spotlight to marry and start a family with Mamdouh, a handsome young doctor who is just beginning his career. When Mamdouh's scheming Italian head nurse Yolanda sets her sights on Mamdouh, Hoda's jealousy drives her to drink, ultimately endangering everything she holds dear.
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
Fadel and his colleagues Aziz and Hamdi are trying to make their way in life, and they hold advanced degrees, but luck does not crown their endeavor with success. Fadel visits his aunt Alawiya, who runs a private institute for girls in a traditional way, and asks to work in the institute, but she refuses. The three decide to establish a modern institute, similar to the aunt’s institute. To compete with her, to teach girls to be modern.
The Bedouin Kenoz meets Haroun, a member of a different tribe who is digging a well for his tribesmen. Haroun's efforts are thwarted by the men of Sheikh Fawaz, who aspires to seize the land.
In the atmosphere of the 1948 Palestine War, a young man is shocked when he learns that his wealthy father has decided to marry the girl he is in love with, so he volunteers for the army and participates in the war. In Gaza City, he meets a Palestinian girl, they fall in love and decide to marry, so the father supplies spoiled weapons to the army, which causes the son to lose his sight during an operation.
The daughter of two Bedouins who married against the will of the two warring tribes, and were killed by their respective families. The girl found herself in danger, so she took refuge in the city and worked in the circus. After she learns her origin, she returns to her tribe, but the tribe rejects her. She falls in love with the son of the tribe’s sheikh. There is a raid on the tribe’s members. The girl tries to participate and wears the clothes of a knight.
The film deals with the life of the Arabian peninsula before Islam emerged, where idolatry, ignorance and corruption spread all over. Then the Mohammedan message of worshiping God alone begins and the difficulties facing Islam and early Muslims starts.
Baher is a merchant in love with his serf Wedad who goes bankrupt because his merchandises are stolen. In order to pay his debts Wedad sacrifices herself and decides to sell herself as serf to another wealthy master.