Jinn may be the first Middle Eastern Original to stream on Netflix, but there are plenty of other great shows from all around the world that are coming to the streaming service over the next couple of months.
The call came in 2014, shortly after Easter. Four years earlier, Catrin Almako’s family had applied for special visas to the United States. Catrin’s husband, Evan, had cut hair for the U.S. military during the early years of its occupation of Iraq. Now a staffer from the International Organization for Migration was on the phone. “Are you ready?” he asked. The family had been assigned a departure date just a few weeks away.
