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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Arab-series-depicting-Jewish-life-in-Gulf-sparks-outrage-624725
Saudi TV Series Depicting Jewish Life in Gulf Sparks Arab Outrage
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - A new TV series, "Life of a Leopard," produced by the Saudi MBC about the life of Jews in the Gulf, has sparked outrage in the Arab world. Critics argue that the series promotes normalization with Israel. The series, to be broadcast during Ramadan which begins next week, focuses on the life of a Jewish woman as a social outcast in the Gulf because of her religion. Renowned Kuwaiti actress Hayat al-Fahad, 71, plays the role of a Jewish midwife and nurse in the series, called Umm Haroun. MBC says the series deals with social relations between Muslims and Jews in Kuwait during the 1940s, at a time when 200 Jewish families lived there. Critics are demanding that MBC refrain from broadcasting the series on the pretext that it's a "form of normalization with the Zionist entity."