Critique Of The Muhannad Effect

Today the level of media saturation has tremendously increased. Television and other forms of media can be found in the poorest of homes. The excess availability of the media also comes with overcrowding channels which target different audiences. Programming featuring sports to reality TV are diverse genres of shows that aim to please all ages, incomes, backgrounds and attitudes. Because many media corporations are for profit, they spend a considerable amount of money to determine the amount of demand that the public wants. The media then produces services and goods to satisfy the market demand.

The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that 's power. The article “Reality TV Goes Where Football Meets the Hijab”, published in the New York Times in November 2011, introduces how the media controls the minds of the masses. Media has become a major issue in our daily lives. We live in a world that we cannot have access to what is going around us, unless we refer to the media. For instance, in our daily routine we usually listen to the news in the morning or at night before we sleep. The news has already been reported and its being delivered to us that fast, but how do we know if what is being said is what is actually happening or if it has been manipulated for political/social reasons? In the beginning of the article, Porochista Khakpour the author of the article, Iranian born American reared, mentions: “If anything made me, an American, it was televisions.” TV, especially the reality TV, resembles the characters and movie stars the way they want to not the way they are. Khakpour said, "Darkness-dark hair, dark eyes, dark skin-always equaled trouble, as if it actually implied a dark side". When we watch TV, most of the movie characters are labeled, either by their gender, religion, or color. Khakpour reaches out to the "outcasts", to prove her point on reality TV shows shaping our beliefs towards each other, especially the "freaks”.

according to saheen cinema is a vehicle which fosters the stereotype of the evil arab. Post 9/11 attack the whole image has been changed . Saheen also says that the Hollywood accepts African American actors but express racist slurs towards arabs (Shaheen, J. G. (2003). Reel bad Arabs: How Hollywood vilifies a people. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 588(1), 171-193.) There is no shortage of muslim villains and terrorists in Hollywood films and television programs. All of the muslims are pictured in Terrorists or villians or Barbaric or foreigners . The media potrays muslims in a very narrow boundry, a muslim women is either shown as belly dancer or a women wearing a hijab while mens are mostly shown as terrorist or either sheiks having huge oil spills in arab . the media never shows how good and how bright the muslim community has flourished with knowledge that they precive. One of the biggest media example is Disney potryaing muslins in Aladin. They present this community living in deserts and having swords with them all the time . did anyone has ever seen an ordinary muslim guy who carries a big sword with him always? No

Through the broad TV of fierce substance, and the mass correspondence of unjustifiable connections, generalizations, measures, desires, and regularizing parts, the media develops rough conduct and frightful or skeptical mentalities about this present reality.

In this essay I am going to compare the main characteristics of the two most important characters of this book. They were both born in Afghanistan but each of them was raised by totally different families. In spite of not having the same social background after several years they meet one another and live together, as wives of their strict husband Rasheed who refuses modern rights for women.

Recent and historical events throughout television history have demanded a redefinition of the medium in contemporary culture. Throughout its history television has predominantly relied upon industry practices established early in the 1960s, however, the turn of the century has produced such divergence from these practices that some scholars are defining it as an entirely new era of television. Lotz, for example, employs the term ‘post-network’, an indication of televisions separation from earlier dominant network practices (9). For the most part, Lotz and scholars alike agree that this transition has stemmed from changes in the industrial norms of producing, financing, and distributing television, as well new introductions to the industry such as the arrival of digital technologies. This essay will agree with these scholars, arguing that significant changes to the Western television industry has resulted in a new, distinctive era of television culture.

In the journal “Imperialism and Empire in the Twentieth-Century”, a studies conducted by Amy Kaplan and Melani McAlister, are examined. The purposes of the studies discussed are to examine “cultural, economic, and political moves that helped the United States expand into the Middle East.” 4 Amy Kaplan concluded that the way that the United States represented the Middle East in media, such as movies and newscast, when relating to topics like race and contests over US Foregin policy in the Middle East did not require a uniformed metropole, but social stratification, in terms of gender and such ideas. This is also linked to politics of expansion abroad. This shows that the way that they United States uses media, does effect our political

To begin, Araby is discussed through elements of fiction which causes the reader to focus on the narrator’s thoughts and feelings. Discussing this story in first person was a good choice because it created better intimacy between the reader and the story. For example, when the reader learnt that the boy grew romantic feelings for Mangan’s sister, this aided in conveying the boys homelife, perspective,

The theme in this play, illustrate what are the conflicts that some Muslims immigrant families go through. The culture conflict between the two generation adds a dynamic touch to the play. In the scene between Salman and his wife Khalsuom, the theme was more about how sometimes marriage from different countries might develop some tension in relationship,

Nouran believes that the Arab Uprisings was one of the most important events nation’s history. She was amazed at how eight million people from all over Egypt came together in a square for a single cause - to overthrow Mubarak. It was the first time in many years that a humongous group of people all came together. She described the Arab Uprisings as a proper revolution: A revolution in which a bottom-up approach was taken, where the citizens (the bottom) work to fix a part of the government (the top) that they did

Another thing that will be analyzed later in the paper is the difference between reality and film. In this sense the media is used to manipulate the things that people believe are true. This can be used for the greater good, but it can also be used to excite violence and

One of the biggest challenges for MTV was the controversial content that it is used to show on their normal channel and regarding this the main difference they had to adapt. The sexuality, use of alcohol, politic criticism and religion criticism are some of the main characteristics of MTV on other countries that are not as conservative as Arabs. With these characteristics MTV has achieved success through the Western hemisphere, be- cause the black humor they use is normal among the youngsters and instead of feeling sensible with these, they see it in a humorous way. But, in the Arab community they still conserve the traditional values supported by their culture. In an effort to adopt the strategy of “Think Globally, Act Locally” MTVN (Music Television Networks) executives made it a point to learn the cultures and make shows that relate to the cultures as op- pose to exporting the American culture. In order to achieve this goal the channel adopted a decentralized

The novel often talks about the setting, time and theme in Egyptian culture through stories of various characters. The culture describes in the novel restricts the readers’ views on

She also tells us about the Arab society. After that, she tells us about the effects among the viewers and how the show is the main cause of the 'Muhannad effect'. The author's facts are accurate as she mentioned the history of the Syrian drama and then she compares Noor with it. She also clearly defined the important terms like the story of Arabized the show and the differences between it and the Arabic ones, and what it has been critiqued for. The author also supports her arguments with sufficient evidence like giving us some examples of the Syrian drama and compares it with Noor, or as she gives us professional's opinions like the opinion of the screenwriter Najib Nusair in their discussion of transformations in the drama industry (Salamandra, 2012, p64). So, the arguments support the main idea of the text which is the story behind the story or the story behind the

In every society in this world, media plays a very important role as sources of information on what is occurring not only within the local community but also in international in the formation of public opinion and have been recognized as constitutive of social reality in modern society . Media thus act as a mirror that reflects the happenings in society and are regarded as a barometer of society .