‘40 Thieves’ podcast series releases as Ramadan special promising drama and thrills

The basic story ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’ will get a contemporary retelling in a brand new 15-part podcast collection obtainable on Deezer for the month of Ramadan.

‘The 40 Thieves’ is a sequel to the unique story and is created by Finyal Media, a regional podcast community that focuses on storytelling podcasts.

“Telling stories with a modern take on classic tales that our listeners know and love is something we love to do at Finyal Media,” mentioned Mshari Alonaizy, co-founder and chief artistic officer of Finyal Media in a press release. “This original series takes place after the famous Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves story and is even more exciting as the stories and characters are completely new.”

Within the unique story, Ali Baba is an impoverished woodcutter who stumbles upon a thieves’ den that is stuffed with riches and could be entered by saying the magic phrase “Open Sesame”.

Within the new story, the gang of thieves kill their outdated foe Ali and his younger daughter Shaden embarks on a quest for vengeance as she swears to seek out her father’s killers. In response to a press release, the feminine protagonist Shaden is an unique character that was developed from scratch and places the feminine character on the centre of the collection.

The brand new present is the newest in Finyal Media’s collection of recent diversifications of basic Arabic tales, with earlier collection together with ‘1001 Nights’ and ‘Juha’ — which had been launched throughout Ramadan in 2020 and 2019 respectively — and ‘Sindbad’.

Episodes for ‘The 40 Thieves’ at the moment are stay with a brand new episode releasing each different day till Eid Al Fitr, with 15 episodes in whole for season one. The Arabic-language present is out there on Deezer, following which it is going to be obtainable on all different podcast platforms.