Middle Eastern Television Drama: Politics, Aest, Salamandra, Halabi..

Middle Eastern Television DramaPolitics, Aesthetics, Practices\nAuthor(s): Christa Salamandra, Nour Halabi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032027814, 978-1032027814\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nIn 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 disciplinesanthropology, 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.