[Commlist] New Book: Middle Eastern Television Drama: Politics Aesthetics, Practices

Middle Eastern Television Drama: Politics, Aesthetics, Practices 
(Routledge 2023) is now available. I hope you'll consider it for your 
institutional libraries.

Best,
Christa

https://www.routledge.com/Middle-Eastern-Television-Drama-Politics-Aesthetics-Practices/Salamandra-Halabi/p/book/9781032027814


[Middle Eastern Television Drama: Politics, Aesthetics, Practices book 
cover]

Middle Eastern Television Drama:
Politics, Aesthetics, Practices

This 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.
In 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 disciplines—anthropology, 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 build on earlier work and introduce fresh perspectives. 
Together, they provide an invaluable overview of Middle Eastern serial 
television and their political impact, drawing examples from 
Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Turkey.
Bringing together a diverse range of academic perspectives, this book 
will be of key interest to students and scholars in media and 
communication studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and popular culture studies.
Contents


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


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