Ramadan is peak season for watching Syrian TV dramas, a cherished custom as soon as stifled by censorship underneath Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Writers, actors and administrators had been exiled, but many nonetheless formed widespread sequence. As creatives return house, how will Syria’s TV and movie business evolve in a post-Assad period?
On this episode:
– Christa Salamandra, Professor of anthropology at Lehman Faculty
– Inas Hakki, Movie director
Episode credit:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker and Chloe Okay. Li, with Sarí el-Khalili, Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Marcos Bartolomé, Melanie Marich, Hanah Shokeir, and our visitor host, Manuel Rapalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
The Take manufacturing group is Marcos Bartolomé, Sonia Bhagat, Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Phillip Lanos, Chloe Okay. Li, Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan, Amy Walters, and Noor Wazwaz. Our editorial interns are Melanie Marich, Hagir Saleh and Hanah Shokeir. Our visitor host is Kevin Hirten. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of viewers engagement.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s government producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
