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Syrian Drama Productions Face Low Demand

Taim Hassan in “Alheiba 2” (Arabic for ‘prestige’), Asharq Al-Awsat
Taim Hassan in “Alheiba 2” (Arabic for ‘prestige’), Asharq Al-Awsat
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Syrian Drama Productions Face Low Demand

Taim Hassan in “Alheiba 2” (Arabic for ‘prestige’), Asharq Al-Awsat
Taim Hassan in “Alheiba 2” (Arabic for ‘prestige’), Asharq Al-Awsat

Production of soap operas meant to broadcast during the holy month of Ramadan was ample, but faced a marketing crisis against the backdrop of war ripping the country apart, Syrian drama sources said.

“About 25 Syrian series were produced this year, but market demand was disappointing as Arab channels were shy in making orders, unlike previous seasons," a Syrian drama consultant, who requested anonymity, told Asharq Al-Awsat.

He added that the recent launch of ‘Lana’ (Arabic for ‘us’) channel on the advent of Ramadan did not salvage the situation.

Many Syrian award-level actors now suffer promoting their shows after having professed deep political opinions that were shunned across the board of Arab countries and Syrian refugees.

"The reason for no Arab channel buying the works of Salaf Fawakherji is her expressing being fiercely pro-regime," the consultant said.

Lana kept to it a limited number of modern-day series, most notably shows like “Waq Waq,” “Rosana” and “Tarjman Ashwaq.”

The drama consultant added that Arab channels now favor Arab productions which involve Syrian actors, such as “Alheiba 2” (Arabic for ‘prestige’) starring Taim Hassan, or and Tareeq (Arabic for ‘road’).

More so, the controversial Syrian regime is seeking to make up the losses impacting the drama industry by taking offered series for local and private broadcast.

"Syria TV", "Syrian Drama TV ", "Sama TV " and "LANA TV" are the most popular local Syrian broadcasters to aid in compensating for the loss in Arab channels demand for Syrian drama productions.

Syrian Drama TV is scheduled to air the following 10 shows, ‘Fawda’(Arabic for chaos), ‘Wahim’(Arabic for illusion), ‘Rai’hat Arrouh’(Arabic for soul scent), ‘Tarjman Ashwaq’ (Arabic for translator of longing), ‘Harem El Shawish’ (Arabic for the sergeant’s harem ), ‘Ghadban’(Arabic for enraged), ‘Qisma wa Hob’ (Arabic for fate and love), ‘Yawmiat Al Mukhtar’ (Arabic for diaries of a mayor).

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Scientists Release Plans for an Even Bigger Atom Smasher to Address the Mysteries of Physics

Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
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Scientists Release Plans for an Even Bigger Atom Smasher to Address the Mysteries of Physics

Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Top minds at the world's largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.

The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva — published late Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

The FCC would carry out high-precision experiments in the mid-2040s to study “known physics” in greater detail, then enter a second phase — planned for 2070 — that would conduct high-energy collisions of protons and heavy ions that would “open the door to the unknown,” said Giorgio Chiarelli, a research director at Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics, The AP news reported.

“History of physics tells that when there is more data, the human ingenuity is able to extract more information than originally expected,” Chiarelli, who was not involved in the plans, said in an e-mail.

For roughly a decade, top minds at CERN have been making plans for a successor to the Large Hadron Collider, a network of magnets that accelerate particles through a 27-kilometer (17-mile) underground tunnel and slam them together at velocities approaching the speed of light.

“Ultimately what we would like to do is a collider which will come up with 10 times more energy than what we have today,” said Arnaud Marsollier, a CERN spokesman. “When you have more energy, then you can create particles that are heavier.”

The blueprint lays out the proposed path, environmental impact, scientific ambitions and project cost. Independent experts will take a look before CERN's two dozen member countries decide in 2028 whether to go forward, starting in the mid-2040s at a cost of some 14 billion Swiss francs (about $16 billion).

CERN officials tout the promise of scientific discoveries that could drive innovation in fields like cryogenics, superconducting magnets and vacuum technologies that could benefit humankind.

Outside experts point to the promise of learning more about the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that has been controversially dubbed “the God particle,” which helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.

Work at the particle collider confirmed in 2013 the existence of the Higgs boson — the central piece in a puzzle known as the standard model that helps explains some fundamental forces in the universe.

“This set of reports represents an important milestone in the process, but a full sense of the likelihood of it being brought to fruition will only be known through careful studies by scientists, engineers and others, including politicians who must make difficult decisions at time when uncertainty rules the day,” Dave Toback, a professor of physics and astronomy at Texas A&M University, said in an e-mail.

The new collider “provides an exciting opportunity for the particle physics community, and indeed all of physics, on the world stage,” said Toback, who was not affiliated with the plans, and who worked for years at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in the United States that was shut down in 2011.

CERN scientists, engineers and partners behind the plans considered at least 100 scenarios for the new collider before coming up with the proposed 91-kilometer circumference at an average depth of 200 meters (656 feet). The tunnel would be about 5 meters (16 feet) in diameter, CERN said.