Abstract:We address a hitherto understudied site of ‘racial’ representation, namely comedy discourses in contemporary Arab transnational TV, especially in the enormously popular Saudi show Tash Ma Tash (a 1992–2011 Ramadan special). Arab TV comedy’s ‘racial’ representation melds the globally familiar generic depreciation of phenotypical Blackness with traits and tropes distinctive to Nubian Egyptians, Sudanese, and Gulf Afro-Arabs. Symptomatic readings derived via core elements of critical discourse analysis, and self-… Show more
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