Director: Samer Al Barkawi
Cast: Tim Hassan, Aimee Sayah, Mona Wassef, Owais Mukhalalti, Abdo Shahin
Smoke curls over a border village where loyalty is currency and blood ties are collateral in Al Hayba: Ras Al Jabal, the 2017 Lebanese series that pulled viewers deep into the Bekaa Valley's shadow economy.
What is Al Hayba Ras Al Jabal about?
The Mekled clan controls a mountain crossing between Lebanon and Syria, and with it, the flow of arms, favors, and grudges that keep the region on edge. When the patriarch's authority starts to slip, rival relatives circle, each convinced the family compound and its smuggling routes should answer to them instead. Into that pressure cooker walks a romance that neither side wants, forcing choices between the family ledger and the heart. Sub-plots pile up around cousins, in-laws, and hired muscle, each pursuing an agenda that only sharpens the central rift. Director Samer Al Barkawi keeps the tension anchored in tight interiors and dusty courtyards rather than gunfights, letting arguments over inheritance and honor do the damage instead. Tim Hassan anchors the ensemble opposite Mona Wassef and Aimee Sayah, with Abdo Shahin and Nazem Issa rounding out a cast that treats every dinner table like a negotiation.
Cast & crew
Tim Hassan leads a dense ensemble built around veteran Lebanese and Syrian television talent. Mona Wassef brings decades of regional prestige to the matriarch role, while Aimee Sayah and Rouzaina Lazkani carry the romantic and familial fault lines that split the household. Owais Mukhalalti and Abdel Moneim Amayri fill out the rival branches jostling for control.
Context & significance
Al Hayba became one of the most-watched Arabic-language dramas of its era, spawning several follow-up seasons because audiences across the region latched onto its portrait of clan politics along a porous frontier. Ras Al Jabal, this installment's subtitle, translates roughly to 'top of the mountain,' a nod to the elevated village setting where the Mekleds hold court. The series draws loosely on real smuggling corridors that have long shaped Lebanese-Syrian border life, giving its family feuds a grounded, almost documentary texture even as the plotting escalates into full melodrama.
Where & how to watch
Al Hayba: Ras Al Jabal streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow every courtyard confrontation in Farsi. The full series is available to browse without an account, and playback simply requires a free K-Time login. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for the Iranian diaspora to queue up Arabic drama alongside the rest of the catalog, switching audio tracks whenever a scene calls for the original language instead.