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.

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.