"In Saudi Arabia, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, divorce cases are linked to the series. In Jordan, Nur was put on the agenda of parliament's education committee in an attempt to define a strategy against "non-Islamic culture". There is an urban legend that a Saudi woman paying her respects to a family in mourning asked where the TV was so that she would not miss that day's episode." I don't understand why Western articles don't mention the great success of Syrian serials.