Middle Eastern Television Drama

<p>This monograph explores and investigates key issues facing Middle Eastern societies including religion and sectarianism history and collective memory urban space and socioeconomic difference policing and securitization and gender relations.</p><p>In the Middle East television drama creators serve as public intellectuals who with uncanny prescience tell the world something. As this volume demonstrates fictional television provides a crucial space for social and political debate in much of the region. Writing from a range disciplines—anthropology communication folklore gender studies history and law— contributors include seasoned academics who have dedicated their careers to researching Middle Eastern media and emerging scholars who build on earlier work and introduce fresh perspectives. Together they provide an invaluable overview of Middle Eastern serial television and their political impact drawing examples from Afghanistan Egypt Iran Syria and Turkey.</p><p>Bringing together a diverse range of academic perspectives this book will be of key interest to students and scholars in media and communication studies Middle Eastern Studies and popular culture studies. </p>