Mona Zaki, Karim Abdel Aziz to Collab in New Film after 14 Years

Egyptian actress Mona Zaki is set to star alongside actor Karim Abdel Aziz in the "Leeb Eyal" (Children's Play).

The film hails from director Tarek Al Eryan and reunites Zaki and Abdel Aziz for the first time in 14 years. 

"Leeb Eyal" marks the pair's third collaboration after working on films "Waleed EL Emm" (2009), and "Abo Aly" (2005).

The film is set to begin production after Al Eryan finishes shooting the long-awaited film "Welad Rizk 3: El Qadya" and Abdel Aziz completes shooting the TV series “Al-Hashashin”.

The big-budget series was set to screen during the holy month of Ramadan but got postponed to Ramadan 2024 due to the tight schedule and filming time as well as the shooting taking place in several countries abroad.

Abdel Aziz is collaborating with screenwriter Abdel Rahim Kamal and director Peter Mimi on the historical project.

The project takes place in the 11th century and sees the actor playing Hassan Al-Sabbah, the founder of Al-Hashashin.

Al-Hashashin was a sect of assassins that operated between 1090 and 1275 CE.

During that time, they lived in the mountains of Persia and Syria and the covert murder of leaders who were considered enemies of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlī State.

The series will also feature Fathy Abdel Wahab, Sherif Salama, Myrna Noureldin, Yasser Ali Maher, Ahmed Kishk, Mohammed Alaa, Amir El-Masry, Suzan Najm Aldeen, and Nicolas Mouawad.

Abdel Aziz and Mimi recently collaborated on the film “Bait Al Rawabi”.