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Ramadan TV shows
A scene from the Egyptian drama Haret al-Yahood, or Jewish Quarter, broadcast over Ramadan 2015. (YouTube screenshot)
March 23, 2016, 11:34 pm
Egypt’s ‘Jewish Quarter’ wins top award at Bahrain TV festival
Show on 1950s romance between Jewish woman, Muslim man named best series; Israeli embassy says it depicts Jewish state as ‘monster’
By JTA
A scene from the Egyptian drama Haret al-Yahood, or Jewish Quarter, broadcast over Ramadan 2015. (YouTube screenshot)
June 4, 2015, 3:27 pm
In new Egyptian Ramadan drama, Jews are the good guys
In change of tone that reflects current anti-Brotherhood zeitgeist, soap opera ‘Jewish Quarter’ longs for the days when Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together harmoniously in Cairo
By Elhanan Miller
In this picture taken on Wednesday July 24, 2013, Lebanese and Syrian citizens gather at an outdoor coffee shop, as one of the Syrian popular series Al-Wiladah Men Al-Khasira (Birth from the Waist), is broadcast on a giant screen, in Beirut, Lebanon. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
July 31, 2013, 6:36 am
Syrian war takes spotlight in Ramadan TV series
Soap dealing with conflict that’s killed 100,000 captivates millions of viewers across Arab world
By Bassem Mroue
A promotional poster for 'Khaiber,' an anti-Semitic miniseries scheduled to be broadcast on Arab channels over the course of the Ramadan (screen capture: Dubai TV)
July 15, 2013, 1:24 am
Arab TV stations air anti-Semitic show over Ramadan
After fast, viewers get to sit down and watch ‘Khaiber,’ a historic drama rife with negative Jewish stereotypes
Arabs dressed as Jewish bank robbers in the Egyptian TV show, 'Firqat Naji Attalah' (Youtube screen capture)
August 5, 2012, 1:00 pm
ADL: Anti-Semitism pervasive in TV programming during Ramadan
Egyptian TV drama about diplomats in Tel Aviv uses pernicious caricatures of Jews
By Gabe Fisher
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