TY - JOUR
T1 - Missionizing Affects
AU - Jaber, Heather
N1 - Funding Information:
Eventually, Kamel and his team trace the flag-raising to its source. They find that the concert was funded by a French company also supporting a homosexual presidential candidate in Egypt. The candidate is Egyptian, but he has been living abroad, with ties to foreign entities and benefactors. It’s at this stage that the security and media forces join, assisting each other to expose external threats. During the process, while Kamel, his family and colleagues utilize the Internet to gather information, it becomes an ambivalent character. This is because it is also the medium by which the flag images have spread. Flashbacks to books, camcorders, tapes and VHS cassettes dramatize a tension with new media as leaks are traced to faces and bodies.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article examines the fictionalized retelling of a real 2017 controversy, after images proliferated of fans raising the rainbow flag during the Lebanese band Mashrou Leila's concert in Egypt in solidarity with the band's openly queer frontman. It examines the Egyptian musalsal or Arabic-language drama serial, 'Awalem Khafeya, Hidden Worlds and suggests that the program engages in the 'recoding' of these events, where violent state crackdowns are restaged to cultivate different affects and feelings around troubled sovereignty. The production is situated within the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian contexts, where the program aired and 'anti-corruption' crackdowns betray state anxieties around economic liberalization. The production is analyzed to demonstrate how recoding operates, reflecting the potential for failed recoding platforms and raising new questions about content and territory. Ultimately, the article offers recoding as a diagnostic of power in the digital media age, where nations face a crisis of sovereignty as they articulate themselves in a global media marketplace.
AB - This article examines the fictionalized retelling of a real 2017 controversy, after images proliferated of fans raising the rainbow flag during the Lebanese band Mashrou Leila's concert in Egypt in solidarity with the band's openly queer frontman. It examines the Egyptian musalsal or Arabic-language drama serial, 'Awalem Khafeya, Hidden Worlds and suggests that the program engages in the 'recoding' of these events, where violent state crackdowns are restaged to cultivate different affects and feelings around troubled sovereignty. The production is situated within the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian contexts, where the program aired and 'anti-corruption' crackdowns betray state anxieties around economic liberalization. The production is analyzed to demonstrate how recoding operates, reflecting the potential for failed recoding platforms and raising new questions about content and territory. Ultimately, the article offers recoding as a diagnostic of power in the digital media age, where nations face a crisis of sovereignty as they articulate themselves in a global media marketplace.
KW - affect
KW - digital leak
KW - musalsal
KW - recoding
KW - streaming
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U2 - 10.1163/18739865-01602005
DO - 10.1163/18739865-01602005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85160660922
SN - 1873-9857
VL - 16
SP - 115
EP - 131
JO - Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
JF - Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
IS - 2
ER -