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Families, imagined and real Families, imagined and real
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9 Taking the soap out of the opera The case of Hagg Mitwalli's Family
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Published:September 2010
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This chapter focuses specifically on the notorious TV drama A'ilat al–Hagg Mitwalli (Hagg Mitwalli's Family), which was aired during the 2001 Ramadan season locally, in Egypt, and simultaneously on 21 satellite TV channels in the region thus becoming a regional household favorite that millions of Arab viewers followed and that triggered a spectacular amount of debate and critique, ultimately causing the intervention of the National Council for Women (NCW) that is presided over by Egypt's first lady. Both the debate surrounding the serial and the ensuing intervention by NCW transformed the show and the main protagonist (Hagg Mitwalli), played by the Egyptian superstar Nur al–Sharif, into a threatening, transnational phenomenon that impacted—from the point of view of the “modernist” authorities and proponents of modernist discourse, specifically where gender issues are concerned—the very image of a modern Egyptian state within a global context.
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