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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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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