DOLLAR 
FLOWER OF ALEPPO 
AL HAYBA 
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Lebanon’s Cedars Art Production, the prominent film and TV company which recently scored a massive hit across the MENA region with TV show “Al Hayba,” is ramping up and reconfiguring its scripted content output with its first two high-end shows conceived for OTT play, one of which involves the fictional creation of a special pan-Arab investigative unit to fight ISIS.“We are preparing our first original content specially made for OTT players,” said company president Sadek Anwar...
Cedars Art Production
Sadek
Anwar
Sabbah
President
Back in 1981, Sabbah joined the family business, launched 67 years ago in Cairo and Beirut. Taking over Cedars Art in 2000, he and brother Ali grew the company into a prolific Arabic content creator, making some 10 TV series and two movies a year, including “Al Habya,” a huge Middle East hit picked up by Netflix, and Netflix original series “Dollar.” Despite COVID-19, Cedars Art, in its first collaboration with Disney, managed to produce “Sukkar Ziada,” an Egyptian adaptation of “Golden Girls.” Coming up is “Anbar12,” about the devastating Beirut port explosion. A pet project for Sabbah is nonprofit theater initiative Masrah Masr, which has branches in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Casablanca that help it serve as the company’s talent testing ground for television.
