Wageh El Amar (Arabic: وجه القمر, Face of the Moon) is a 2001 Egyptian soap opera mini-series.
The series was hyped by the media, mainly because it marked the return of Egyptian actress Faten Hamama.
Her husband Karim Abul-Ezz is a successful businessman, and their three children, Sarah and Samah from Ibtissam's previous marriage, and Wael are all bright and ambitious.
One day, Ibtissam's long-lost husband Mustafa Qura unexpectedly reappears, and messes all this perfection up.
In Sara's case, he makes her discover that her fiancé is a strange person who deals in stolen antiquities, and his lawyer helps get Sara discharged from custody after her fiancé intentionally leaves a precious artifact in her car and she is arrested.
But to prove it's really him, he needs to get witnesses and people who knew him to swear in front of the courts that he is who he claims he is, but Karim is always getting to them first, and persuading them not to appear.
To make matters even more complicated, Mustafa is dying of leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant, which Sara selflessly volunteers for.
[3] In the show's final sequence, several years later, the family is all gathered happily at the table for iftar (breakfast in Ramadan), just like before.
The Al-Wafd newspaper wrote: "There's a cloud, or maybe it's fog, that appears every time Faten shows up, to the extent that a lot of people thought there was something wrong with their TVs.
"[4]The same Sawt Al-Umma article mentioned above wrote: "Faten Hamama is like a soccer player who has been away from practice for a long time... the muscles have gone so stiff, the knees so rickety, and the chest so weak that he can no longer score goals except in his own net.