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Dramas of Nationhood : The Politics of Television in Egypt by Lila Abu-Lughod; Anthony T. Carter is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dramas of Nationhood : The Politics of Television in Egypt about?
How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts—have been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lila Abu-Lughod; Anthony T. Carter
- Publisher
- Ill. : University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226001982
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, Sociology
- Rating
- 3.45 / 5 (52 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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