Director: Fakart Qady
A widowed mother desperate to cover her son's cancer treatment turns to her manager for help, only to be met with a demand that sets the entire plot of "Al Thaman" in motion.
What is Al Thaman about?
"Al Thaman," a 2023 Lebanese drama series, opens on an impossible financial bind: a mother with no remaining options asks her workplace superior for the money her son's treatment requires. The manager's response, an exploitative condition tied to spending the night with him, becomes the moral fault line the rest of the story is built around, forcing the mother into choices that ripple outward into her family, her workplace, and the people around her who each carry their own stake in what happens next. The series is less concerned with a single twist than with tracing consequence: how one impossible decision under pressure reshapes relationships, reputations, and the balance of power between the people involved. Episode by episode, it widens from a private crisis into a broader portrait of vulnerability, class, and the price people are asked to pay when they have nothing left to bargain with.
Cast & crew
Bassel Khayyat and Razane Jammal lead the cast, with Hadi Mokdad, Sara Abi Kanaan, Nicola Mouawad, Randa Kaady, Rafic Ali Ahmad, and Sabah Al Jazairi filling out the supporting roles.
Context & significance
Fakart Qady directs this Lebanese production, which premiered in 2023 and carries an IMDb rating of 6.2, part of a wave of Levantine social dramas that use one family's crisis to examine wider pressures around money, power, and desperation.
Where & how to watch
"Al Thaman" is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers a choice in how they follow the story. This page is free to browse without logging in, but watching the episodes requires a K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-first interface is built specifically with Persian-speaking diaspora audiences in mind.