Barakah Meets Barakah

بركة يقابل بركة

Mahmoud Sabbagh's debut — Saudi Arabia's first romantic comedy — about a municipal worker and a social-media celebrity in Jeddah; a gentle push at social boundaries.

Depth

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Identifiers
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Review
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Family, marriage and kinshipTradition versus cultureHumour and everyday life

Screening Room

Format
Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
Released
2016 CE · 1437 AH†
Countries
SA
Languages
ar (original)
Approach
comedy
Depiction of sacred figures
The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable
Titles in other languages
بركة يقابل بركةBarakah Meets Barakah

Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.

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Features
Hisham Fageeh· Fatima Al-Banawi
Directed by
Mahmoud Sabbagh
Written by
Mahmoud Sabbagh

People and things also explored

Sending infants to Bedouin wet-nurses· Jāhilī Marriage Forms· Consecrated Livestock· Waʾd (Infant Burial)· Alif· Joyland· Ramy· Where Do We Go Now?

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • IMDb
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islam.museum contributors. “Barakah Meets Barakah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/baraka-yuqaabil-baraka-2016/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Sending infants to Bedouin wet-nurses

The custom of the settled Arabs of seeking wet-nurses in the desert for their children, to keep them from the diseases of the towns, strengthen their bodies and nerves, and let them master pure Arabic from the cradle; by it the Prophet was nursed among Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr by Halima.