Harun's Mother (2020)
Set in the 1940s, the series chronicles the life of Umm Harun, a doctor residing amongst the townspeople in Kuwait and faces numerous challenges, she and her family as well as the Jewish community at large.
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Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2020-04-24Umm Harun (Harun's mother) recounts how clashes started between people of different religions and classes. Mohamed's mother is shocked to learn of his relationship with the Jewish Rahil. The strife between Muslims and Jews manifest when the Jews take over Jerusalem.
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2020-04-25Dawud and Umm Harun accept condolences for their dead Jewish family member. Refqa admonishes Rahil for her relationship with Mohamed, and Umm Harun encourages her husband to find their son a Jewish bride. Mariam sets a trap for Jabr who abandoned her and married Aliaa.
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2020-04-26Umm Harun blows the whistle on a Jewish man who mixes milk with wine for Muslims. Aliaa confronts her husband with her knowledge of his love for Mariam, and he quarrels with the latter. Dawud gets upset when Abu Mohamed (Mohamed's father) raises donations for the Palestinians.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2020-04-27Umm Harun admonishes Mariam and urges her to stay away from Abu Sa'ied (Sa'ied's father), and Mariam tells her she knows what's between them. Rahil's father rejects Mohamed and tells him she is engaged. Ezra gets the money to buy weapons.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2020-04-28When her family rejects Mohamed, Rahil tries to commit suicide. Ezra takes advantage of the situation to hide the weapons at the house, and Dawud quarrels with them. Jabr suspects Mariam for being the reason Abu Sa'ied got sick. Rahil elopes with Mohamed.
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Episode 6 - Episode 6
Release Date: 2020-04-29Mohamed and Rahil are caught at the borders and returned to their families. Rahil's mother as well as Mohamed's quarrel with Umm Harun, believing she encouraged them to escape. Abu Sa'ied's wife asks rabbi Dawud's wife to find her a charlatan to predict Abu Sa'ied's future, and they get arrested.
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Episode 7 - Episode 7
Release Date: 2020-04-30Umm Harun bails Umm Mohamed and the other women out. Mariam asks for the priest's permission to marry Abu Sa'ied so she can invite more people to Christianity, and both Abu Mohamed and Dawud are shocked to see the priest distributing copies of the Bible amongst the children.
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Episode 8 - Episode 8
Release Date: 2020-05-01Umm Harun admonishes Abu Sa'ied for marrying Mariam. Rahil learns that Mohamed got engaged to another. Abu Yacoub (Yacoub's father) refuses to wed his son to Rahil.
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Episode 9 - Episode 9
Release Date: 2020-05-02Mohamed gets married, and Umm Sa'ied (Sa'ied's mother) falls ill when she learns her husband married Mariam. Ishak proposes to Rahil.
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Episode 10 - Episode 10
Release Date: 2020-05-03Rahil tells her mother that her sister and Ezra are zionists. As Ezra and his wife burn down Yacoub's house to frame the Muslims for it, Rahil's mother validates her daughter's account.
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Episode 11 - Episode 11
Release Date: 2020-05-04Ezra tells Mas'ouda he burnt the house to secure a way for them out of the country. Yacoub asks for Dawud's daughter's hand for his son. Hend tells Aliaa that she isn't her real mother.
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Episode 12 - Episode 12
Release Date: 2020-05-05Hend tells Aliaa that Umm Harun found baby Aliaa abandoned in the streets and entrusted Hend to raise her. Mohamed's father disapproves of Zanouba's marriage because she is still a minor. Umm Harun passes out and is rushed to the hospital.
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Episode 13 - Episode 13
Release Date: 2020-05-06Ezra steals Dawud's money. Umm Harun tells Abu Sa'ied that Mariam is pregnant. Jaber puts herbals in Mariam's food to abort her.
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Episode 14 - Episode 14
Release Date: 2020-05-07Umm Harun insists on leaving the country, despite everyone's attempts at dissuading her. Abu Sa'ied learns that Mohamed is Umm Harun's son whom Abu Sa'ied raised after the fire brought her house to ashes. Umm Sa'ied reads Mariam's diaries and learns she loves another man other than her husband.
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Episode 15 - Episode 15
Release Date: 2020-05-08Dawud learns it is Ezra who robbed him. When he learns that Rahil wants to donate blood to Mohamed, he decides to kill her, and her husband divorces her. Mohamed forgives Umm Harun.
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Episode 16 - Episode 16
Release Date: 2020-05-09Dawud tries to burn his daughter Rahil at the Jewish Synagogue but Zanouba saves her and she donates blood to Mohamed. Dawud reports Zanouba to the mental hospital and she is admitted into it. Umm Harun tells Mohamed he owns Abu Sa'ied's house and is entitled to half of the properties.
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Episode 17 - Episode 17
Release Date: 2020-05-10Dawud tries to convince Jabr to convert to Judaism when he learns that Umm Harun is his mother. Umm Sa'ied suspects that Jabr and Mariam are having an affair.
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Episode 18 - Episode 18
Release Date: 2020-05-11Zanouba is discharged from the hospital. Rahil elopes with Mohamed. Jabr asks Mariam to leave Abu Sa'ied and marry him.
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Episode 19 - Episode 19
Release Date: 2020-05-12Jabr kicks out Abu Sa'ied and his two wives from the house and takes over their properties. Umm Harun tells Aliaa that she is Qabela's daughter and Zanouba's sister. Dawud sets a trap for Abu Mohamed and falsely claims to the people that he is in cahoots with the English forces.
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Episode 20 - Episode 20
Release Date: 2020-05-13Ezra travels to Israel. Mariam loses her baby when Jaber pushes her over. Umm Harun bargains with Mariam to get Jabr to marry her in exchange for getting Abu Sa'ied out of prison. Jabr divorces Aliaa.
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Episode 21 - Episode 21
Release Date: 2020-05-14Dawud's daughter learns that her father is a pro-Zionism man, who's cooperating with the English forces to return the Jews to Palestine to establish the State of Israel. Abu Sa'ied falls ill and is rushed to the hospital.
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Episode 22 - Episode 22
Release Date: 2020-05-15Abu Sa'ied is released from prison. A decision is made to banish Ezra from Kuwait for his collaboration with Israel. A tragic accident befalls Rahil and Mohamed.
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Episode 23 - Episode 23
Release Date: 2020-05-16Umm Harun admonishes Dawud for collaborating with the Zionists and the English. She blames Abu Sa'ied for telling Alia and Zanouba that their mother died in a fire. Mariam confronts Abu Sa'ied with his marriage to Zanouba's mother. Jabr fights with Abu Sa'ied for stealing the former's inheritance.
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Episode 24 - Episode 24
Release Date: 2020-05-17When Mohamed and Rahil return to village, they're unwelcome by everyone as Mohamed's father refuses to see him. Abu Sa'ied reproaches Mariam for marrying Jabr and using him to get closer to Jabr. Umm Sa'ied proposes that she and her husband leave everything behind and travel to Mumbai.
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Episode 25 - Episode 25
Release Date: 2020-05-18Refqa refuses to get back with Ezra. Dawud tries to get Mohamed to divorce Rahil. Jabr asks for his uncle Abu Sa'ied's forgiveness in an attempt to clear the air between them.
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Episode 26 - Episode 26
Release Date: 2020-05-19Mohamed divorces Rahil. Mariam realizes that Abu Sa'ied has plotted to have a girl poison Jabr. Umm Harun assures Mariam that she switched the dishes before Jabr could eat from the poisoned one.
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Episode 27 - Episode 27
Release Date: 2020-05-20Abu Mohamed's innocence is proven, and it is discovered that Dawud was the one inciting the people against him. Abu Mohamed tries to demolish Dawud's house in retaliation. Umm Sa'ied quarrels with her husband. The Jewish community in Kuwait considers fleeing Kuwait for Israel.
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Episode 28 - Episode 28
Release Date: 2020-05-21Jabr suspects that Abu Sa'ied is the one who poisoned the water of the well. Rafiqa decides to run away from her father's house. Similarly, Abu Mohamed decides to leave Kuwait for Saudi Arabia.
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Episode 29 - Episode 29
Release Date: 2020-05-22Rahil tells Mohamed that she's leaving with her family. Refqa places broken glass before the mosque to injure the Muslims. Abu Sa'ied offers Jabr to buy the house.
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Episode 30 - Episode 30
Release Date: 2020-05-23Jabr forgives his uncle, Abu Sa'ied, but the latter betrays him again. In retaliation, Zanouba burns down the house with Abu Sa'ied and his wife inside and they both die. The Jews leave Kuwait.