Ramadan Arabian Nights 2018 : The amazing tales challenge Episode 12 “The Prophecy”

It is time to complete our tale for this year, the tale of The Amazing tales challenge.
Before we go and listen to tonight’s episode of our Ramadan Arabian Nights Podcast, I would like to share a little trivia.

Tonight one of our recurring characters is having a comeback aka King Haddam of the Ifrit Underground kingdom.
King Haddam was voiced by famous late Egyptian actor Hassan el Baroudi who is better known as Madbouli in Youssef Chahine’s Cairo Station.
Born in January 1890, el Baroudi was from Egypt’s first generation of actors just like Abdel Waress Assar.
He started his career in acting in 1923 joining a theater company and ended it in 1974 with his death.
He got a huge number of filmography that started in 1929 and ended it in 1974 as I hinted.
Like Assar, he was mainly a supporting actor but you cannot miss him.
One of his famous roles was in Salah Abu Seif’s Second Wife as Mabrouk, the hypocrite villager.
He also appeared in Charlton Heston’s Khartoum Film.
May God bless his soul.
Now we move to our new episode tonight, which was episode no. 273 in the record of the Egyptian State Radio’s One Thousand and One Nights.
You can listen to it after the break.



In disguise as couple Noah and Rouh, the two evil Ifrits take the Grand Priest of Djinn to their underground Ifrit Kingdom. They complete their charade with the help of King Haddam who shapeshift to a Djinn King. Rouh pretends that she divorces Noah.
In return she says that she wants to marry the Grand Priest whose name is Noman on one condition, he would bring her the invisible cap of King Saeed.
Haddam also tells the old priest that he has got only three days to bring her the cap.
Noman is hesitant but devilish Rouh tells him that he will be acting upon a prophecy as she was told that she would marry an old man who would make appear and disappear.
The poor man believes her and trouble is coming to King Saeed and his brothers.