About AlRawabi School for Girls
At AlRawabi, an elite all-girls private school perched in the hills above Amman, the social order is enforced as strictly as any exam. When a quiet, studious student named Mariam becomes the target of relentless bullying by a tight clique at the top of the pecking order, the humiliation does not simply pass. It hardens into a plan. Methodical and patient, she begins to turn the group's own secrets and rivalries against them, drawing the audience into a slow-burn study of how cruelty among teenagers escalates and who ultimately pays for it.
Created by Tima Shomali, the series uses the closed world of the school to examine the pressures the girls carry from outside its gates: the expectations of families, the gossip that travels faster than truth, and the double standards that judge daughters far more harshly than sons. Each character is given an interior life rather than a label, so the line between bully and bullied keeps shifting, and the question of who deserves sympathy is never settled cleanly.
Released by Netflix in 2021, AlRawabi School for Girls became one of the most talked-about Arabic-language originals of its moment, praised for centering young Jordanian women and for refusing to look away from the cost of revenge. A second season in 2024 carries the same setting forward with a new group of students and a fresh storyline, continuing the show's interest in the inner lives of girls navigating friendship, reputation, and pressure.
