Middle Eastern Television Drama

Christa Salamandra is Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research explores urban, visual, and mediated culture. She is author of A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria and co-editor of Syria from Reform to Revolt, Vol 2. Nour Halabi is an Interdisciplinary Fellow in the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. Her research focuses on Arab and global media, social movements, and migration. She is author of Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration.

Introduction: Television Matters Nour Halabi, Leeds University, United Kingdom Christa Salamandra, City University of New York, United States 1. ResurReaction: Competing Visions of Turkey’s (Proto) Ottoman Past in Magnificent Century and Resurrection Ertuğrul Josh Carney, American University of Beirut, Lebanon 2. Red Death and Black Life: Media, Martyrdom and Shame Esha Momeni, University of California Los Angeles, United States 3. A Massacre Foretold: National Excommunication and Al-Gama’a Walter Armbrust, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 4. Social Media Activism in Egyptian Television Drama: Encoding the Counterrevolution Narrative Gianluca Parolin, Agha Khan University, United Kingdom 5. Visualizing Inequality: The Spatial Politics of Revolution Depicted in Syrian Television Drama Nour Halabi, Leeds University, United Kingdom 6. Past Continuous: The Chronopolitics of Representation in Syrian Television Drama Christa Salamandra, Lehman College, City University of New York, United States 7 Gando and the Geopolitical Imagination on Iranian Television Mehdi Semati, Northern Illinois University, United States Nima Behroozi, University of Melbourne, Australia 8. Afghan Television Dramas: Balancing Entertainment with the Realities of War Wazhmah Osman, Temple University, United States 9. The Disguised Impact of the Distribution Processes in Turkish Television: Domestic Strategies for the Global Dizi Arzu Öztürkmen, Boğaziçi University, Turkey