Paranormal, Egypt's Answer To The X-Files

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Paranormal, Egypt's Answer To The X-Files

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Basically an Egyptian cross between the X-Files and Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Paranormal is a 2020 6 episode Egyptian Horror series that's Egypt's first Netflix Original.

It's based on a series of popular Egyptian Horror/Thriller books called Ma Wara' al-Tabi'a (Beyond Nature) that ran from 1993 to 2014 written by Ahmad Khaled Tawfik until his death.

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The stories are narratives, told in first person view, where the protagonist, Refaat Ismael an Egyptian university professor of hematology, is narrating his adventures starting when he was in his late thirties. All of the events are related to the metaphysics in a way or another, and most often are caused by supernatural phenomena, although some are caused by culprits who are faking the events. Refaat usually solves the mystery, and always gets out alive whether or not he has fully understood the phenomenon. He is accompanied by many friends and characters throughout the stories, some stories are more centered around them than him, and some are totally narrated by them.

Tawfik who died in 2018, was considered the first contemporary writer of horror and science fiction in the Arabic speaking world and also the first writer to explore the medical thriller genre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Wara%27_al-Tabi%27a

Though it's mainly in Arabic, there is an English dub though you can watch it in Arabic with English subtitles as well.
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Re: Paranormal, Egypt's Answer To The X-Files

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Good read.

Would watch.
..What mirror universe?
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