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Reality Television and Arab Politics - Contention in Public Life (Hardcover)
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Reality Television and Arab Politics - Contention in Public Life (Hardcover)
Series: Communication, Society and Politics
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What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth
of primary data collected over five years, Reality Television and
Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive
mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fuelling heated polemics
over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political
participation in the Arab world. The controversies, Kraidy argues,
are best understood as a social laboratory in which actors
experiment with various forms of modernity, continuing a
long-standing Arab preoccupation with specifying terms of
engagement with Western modernity. Women and youth take center
stage in this process. Against the backdrop of dramatic upheaval in
the Middle East, this book challenges the notion of a monolithic
'Arab Street' and offers an original perspective on Arab media,
shifting attention away from a narrow focus on al-Jazeera, toward a
vibrant media sphere that compels broad popular engagement and
contentious political performance.
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