Korean Arabic Arabic Literature Society

Television discourse and the cultural politics of rural transformation in Jordan: Memory, rurality, and dispossession in Umm Al-Karoum

This article examines the Jordanian television serial Umm al-Karoum (Jordan Television, Citation1999), a 15-episode drama produced in 1999 but set during the social and economic transformations of rural Jordan in the 1970s and 1980s. Rather than treating the serial as rural evide...