This year's Ramadan serial commentary

By artappraiser on Thu, 08/09/2012 - 11:07pm |

By Issandr el Amrani, Arabist.net, August 8, 2012

It's an annual MENA tradition I look forward to — analysis of the major Ramadan soap operas, TV serial, and overall programming choices on Arab national and satellite television. Here's a few links:

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Then to Yves Gonzalez-Quinjano's wonderful site, Cultures et Politiques Arabes, is a full archive of his pieces on Ramadan serials over the last six or seven years — great stuff. I really like his recent piece on the serial about Omar Ibn Khattab's life in the context of the regional Sunni-Shia pseudo-confrontation. In English on the site, stats about this megaproduction:

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URL:

http://www.arabist.net/blog/2012/8/8/this-years-ramadan-serial-commentary.html