New Series Slave Market Premieres on Shahid

Slave Market, a new period drama produced by MBC Studios, has made its debut on MBC Group’s Shahid streaming platform.

The series narrates five stories taking place simultaneously in different parts of the world in the 1900s. Season one follows the journeys of Rahma (Arabian Peninsula), Colonel Morton and his English family (Jeddah), Lavani (Mumbai), Quako and Natanda (Eastern Africa) and Khorshid’s family (European Caucasus) up to the point in which they all end up at the slave market.

Slave Market was written by Kuwaiti writer Heba Mashari Hamada and directed by award-winning Tunisian director Lassaad Oueslati. It was filmed across 104 locations and features 70 main cast members and 150 supporting cast members from Saudi Arabia, the Arab region and beyond. Over 17,000 extras were used.

The cast includes, among others, Fayez Bin Jurays, Apeksha Porwal, Al Anoud Saud, Hashim Najdi, Haneen Turkistany, Nawaf Al-Dhufairi, Nagham Almalki, Marzouk Al Ghamdy, Saeed Al Qahtani, Shyam Kishore, Janique Charles, Chris J Gordon, Avant Strangel, Justina Biosah, Genlee Motlana, Paballo Owami Landu, Shannon Gaskin, Nick Cornwall, Natasha Choufani, Lauren Elise Thomas, Nizar Alsulaimani and Sumaiah Abdulwahab.

A total of 4,700 costumers were created for the series, with wardrobe design led by Yasmine El Kadi. For scenes at sea, more than 35 interior and exterior designs were built exclusively for the series.