{"id":323219,"date":"2023-01-06T16:17:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=323219"},"modified":"2023-01-06T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:17:41","slug":"first-omani-series-on-netflix-premieres-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/first-omani-series-on-netflix-premieres-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"First Omani series on Netflix premieres this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 <strong>Netflix<\/strong> is continuing its investment in Arab content with the launch of its latest series \u201cScattered Barriers.\u201d It is the first series on Netflix set in <strong>Oman<\/strong>. The six-episode series is scheduled to air on January 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Scattered Barriers<\/em><\/strong> sheds light on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on human behavior and society. The lead character, Nasser, is a taxi driver who denies the severity of the virus until he loses his mother to it. The story is set in Oman but was shot in Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The Omani series features local talent Amina Abdel Rasoul, Ibrahim Al Zadjali, Essam Al Zadjali, Balqis Al Balushi and Raed Al Ameri, along with Emirati actor Salama Al Mazrouei. It is directed by director Adbelbary Adulkhair \u2014 known for shows like \u201cDreams Drawn by Dust\u201d and \u201cAl Hasan and Al Husein\u201d \u2014 and filmed by cinematographer Susan Lumsdon.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest show in Netflix\u2019s content strategy for the Middle East, with other recent examples being UAE\u2019s \u201cDubai Bling,\u201d and \u201cThe Cage,\u201d a comedy-drama and its first Kuwaiti series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-323217\">Screenshot<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Scattered Barriers\u2019 airs on the platform on January 12. Netflix is continuing its investment in Middle Eastern content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":323217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[37993,17555,10161,2063,14591,19412,2030,37994,10626,37995],"class_list":{"0":"post-323219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-arab-series","9":"tag-golfo-en-3","10":"tag-gulf-en","11":"tag-middle-east","12":"tag-netflix-en","13":"tag-oma-en-2","14":"tag-oman","15":"tag-oman-series","16":"tag-oriente-medio-ar","17":"tag-serie-oma-en"},"wps_subtitle":"\u2018Scattered Barriers\u2019 airs on the platform on January 12. Netflix is continuing its investment in Middle Eastern content.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}