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A massacre foretold: national excommunication and Al-Gama’a

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Al-Gama’a [The Society], a 28-part television biopic of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, was broadcast in the fall of 2010, just before the January 25, 2011 Revolution. The writer of the series, Wahid Hamid, was an important screenwriter for both television and the cinema and a figure known for his affinity with the state’s security apparatus. Al-Gama’a functioned as a rhetorical capstone for decades of anti-Brotherhood state discourse. It also powerfully anticipated the anti-Brothe...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1080/19436149.2019.1600881

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Oriental Studies Faculty
Oxford college:
St Antony's College
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-3040-0171
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
Journal:
Middle East Critique Journal website
Volume:
28
Issue:
2
Pages:
197-217
Publication date:
2019-04-21
Acceptance date:
2019-01-20
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pubs:985049
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uuid:656223c1-3b32-4ea0-ad86-615b471f72d2
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pubs:985049
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985049
Deposit date:
2019-03-27

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