Egypt is mother of the world : transnational television and national identity

This dissertation is about the production of national identity in the transnational age. Focusing on the specific example of Egyptian television, this dissertation argues that new production imperatives, mainly in satellite television and internet, have changed the way that television is produced in the Arabic speaking Middle East, most significantly away from direct state control. The changes in production accompany changes in distribution and consumption of electronic media and are significantly rewriting the ways that shared cultural identities in the Middle East, including nationalism, religious, and other significant identities, are produced, consumed and replicated. This dissertation approaches these topics by relating two specific televisual texts, the Ramadan serials Malek Farouq and Gamal Abdel Nasser, to larger changes in Arab and Egyptian television production.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Radio-Television-Film

Grantor

University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Elseewi, Tarik Ahmed

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kumar, Shanti

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Kackman, Michael
• Wilkins, Karin G.
• Straubhaar, Joe
• Kraidy, Marwan

• Egypt
• Egyptian media
• King Farouq
• Gamal Abdel Nasser
• Television
• National identity
• Globalization
• Transnational television
• Arabic television
• Satellite broadcasting
• Cultural identity
• Media and Islam
• MBC

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1631

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1631