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Live TV and the on-demand library in Full HD on one screen.
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- 40,000 live channels with EPG
- 90,000 films & series on demand
- Full HD streams
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Sorted by country
How the Arabic section is organised
The Arab world is many audiences, not one. A family from Alexandria wants different channels from a family in Muscat or Casablanca, and dialect, humour and news agendas change from border to border. So instead of one long list, the IPTV Arabic section is split by country.
Open it and you find groups for the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, then Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Iraq, then Sudan, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Pan-Arab entertainment, news and religious channels have groups of their own, and so do Arabic cartoons. Each group has its own guide grid, which helps when a Cairo serial and a Kuwaiti talk show start within minutes of each other.
Arabic channels by region
Arabic IPTV here spans six broad regions, each split into its own countries inside the app.
Gulf
Emirati, Saudi, Kuwaiti, Qatari, Bahraini and Omani channels with Khaleeji drama and local news.
Egypt
The largest Arabic drama and film industry, with comedy, talk shows and football.
Levant
Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian channels for drama, music and current affairs.
Iraq
Iraqi news, drama and religious channels for a large community in the Emirates.
Maghreb
Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian and Libyan channels, many in Darija and French as well as Arabic.
Sudan and Yemen
News, music and cultural channels for Sudanese and Yemeni families.
What is inside
What the IPTV Arabic section carries
Drama
Khaleeji series, Egyptian soaps, Syrian and Lebanese drama, and Turkish series dubbed into Arabic.
News
Pan-Arab and national news channels from across the region, running all day.
Religious
Quran recitation, live prayers, lectures and the special programming of Ramadan.
Football
Gulf leagues, Egyptian and North African football, and European matches where Arabic commentary is broadcast.
Kids
Arabic cartoons, dubbed animation and educational programmes for younger viewers.
Ramadan
The Ramadan drama season
For most Arab households, Ramadan is the biggest television month of the year. New series launch in the first days, families debate which ones to follow, and episodes air from iftar until late into the night. Keeping up with three or four shows without a replay window is close to impossible.
Gold 4K keeps three days, so an evening of family visits costs you nothing. Platinum keeps seven, enough to watch a whole week’s episodes on Friday. Religious channels in the IPTV Arabic groups carry Taraweeh live, and Quran recitation runs around the clock. Our WhatsApp team keeps the region’s late Ramadan hours, so a question sent after iftar gets a quick answer.
5 questions
What Arab families ask us
Still unsure? Our team replies on WhatsApp 7 days a week.
Ask a questionAre Egyptian and Syrian series in the IPTV Arabic section?
Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese and Gulf drama channels each sit in their own country group. Line-ups change over time, so the guide shows what is currently there.
Can I watch a Ramadan episode I missed?
Where the channel supports catch-up, Gold 4K goes back three days and Platinum a full week, which covers a missed evening easily.
Are Moroccan and Algerian channels part of the Arabic IPTV line-up?
The Maghreb has its own groups, one per country, with many channels in Darija, Amazigh or French alongside standard Arabic.
Can the app menus be in Arabic?
Several player apps, including IPTV Smarters Pro and IBO Player, can switch to an Arabic, right-to-left interface. We suggest one for your device.
Which IPTV Arabic plan suits a family with several TVs?
Count the rooms where the TV is on together during a Ramadan evening, the busiest time of year. Three or four points to Platinum; two to the two-screen Gold option.
News
News from every capital
Arab expats in the Emirates tend to follow events at home closely, and the pan-Arab news channels run all day. Arabic IPTV puts both side by side: the region-wide stations and the national channels from Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Baghdad, Damascus, Riyadh and beyond.
Because the lists are grouped by country, moving from a Lebanese bulletin to a Jordanian talk show takes two clicks. Many IPTV Arabic viewers pin their news channels to the top of a favourites list so they are the first thing on screen. Business news, weather and sport bulletins sit in the same groups, while English-language international news lives in the international categories.
Football
Football with Arabic commentary
Football is the shared language of the region, and of every IPTV Arabic household we serve. The sport section carries football from the Gulf leagues and cups, from Egypt and North Africa, Arab national team fixtures and continental club competitions, with plenty of European football on channels that broadcast Arabic commentary. Coverage follows the broadcast calendar, so look in the guide during the week of a match.
Big evening games pull in the whole house, and the clashes are familiar: the father wants the Gulf derby, the son wants a European match at the same hour. A second stream on the account keeps the peace. Tennis, basketball, F1, boxing, MMA and the region’s growing taste for padel are in the sport groups too.
A typical week in the sport section
- ThuCricketDay-night internationals and the franchise leaguesLate finish? Replay it tomorrow
- FriFootballGulf and European league weekendsKick-offs listed in the guide
- SatFight nightBoxing and MMA cards that run past midnight3-day replay on Gold 4K
- SunMotorsportRace weekends, from practice to podium7-day replay on Platinum
Kids
Keeping the language alive for children
Parents raising children in English-medium schools often worry that Arabic slips away. Television helps more than you might expect. The kids’ groups in the IPTV Arabic section include cartoons dubbed into Modern Standard Arabic, local animated series and educational programmes.
One trick works well: build a separate favourites list for the children with only Arabic cartoons in it, and put it on the bedroom stick or the tablet. They watch what they enjoy and hear Arabic every day. Categories you would rather keep from young eyes can usually be hidden behind a PIN; tell us which player you use and we show you the switch.
On demand
Films and complete series on demand
Beyond the live channels, the IPTV Arabic library holds films, full drama series and a big catalogue of foreign series dubbed into Arabic, including the Turkish dramas that so many families follow. Each series opens as a list of seasons, so a new viewer can begin at the pilot and work forward at their own pace, while a returning one jumps straight to where they stopped.
Classic Egyptian cinema is well represented, from black-and-white comedies to the big dramas of later decades, and many parents enjoy sharing them with their children. The higher tiers add hundreds of thousands of titles in English, Hindi, Tagalog and more, which matters in mixed households.
Gulf communities
Gulf families in the Emirates and next door
Emirati households want local channels, Khaleeji drama, horse and camel racing, poetry programmes and Gulf football, and Saudi, Kuwaiti and Omani residents ask for the same from home. Egyptian families follow talk shows and comedy, Levantine households lean towards drama and music, and Iraqi and Sudanese viewers want their own news. Serving all of them at once is exactly why the IPTV Arabic section is split by country.
The same login also works next door. Kuwaiti and Bahraini drama lovers living in their home countries can read about watching from Kuwait on a 5G home router or evening viewing in Bahrain, an hour behind the UAE, and families in Doha can start with the notes for Qatar’s compounds and towers.
App language
Arabic menus and easy layouts for older viewers
Channel names in the IPTV Arabic groups often appear in Arabic script, while the programme guide may show Arabic or English depending on the channel’s source. For older viewers, a large-font theme and a favourites list of six or seven channels make a real difference. Tell us who will hold the remote and we suggest an app and a layout to match.
The Smarters Pro setup guide shows how to add your login, and the guide for family homes in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah covers multi-screen villas. For a neutral history of the technology, see the Wikipedia article on IPTV.
Choosing a plan
Matching a plan to an Arab household
Silver, at AED 149 a year, suits one Full HD screen, often a parent’s bedroom TV used for news and religious channels. It includes the whole IPTV Arabic section; only 4K and replay are missing.
For the main lounge, most families take Gold 4K at AED 269 a year: football looks its best in 4K, and the three-day replay rescues Ramadan evenings. Platinum Lifetime, AED 1,149 once, suits big households settled here for the long term, with up to four screens, a dedicated server and a week of replay. Paying by bank transfer takes 10% off any of them.