Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future: Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria
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Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future : Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria. / Crone, Christine Aster.
In: Middle East Critique, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023, p. 305-321.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Re-Narrating the Past, Producing the Present and Unlocking the Future
T2 - Haris al-Quds, a TV-Dramatization of ‘Post-war’ Syria
AU - Crone, Christine Aster
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Regaining control of Aleppo was an important symbolic victory for the Syrian state army, which has opened the way for state-sanctioned narrations of ‘post-war’ Syria. To elucidate the workings of this narration, I explore the TV drama Haris al-Quds (2020) as a fascinating window into Syrian state ideology in Bashar al-Assad’s ‘post-war’ Syria. I argue that the Syrian state holds on to future visions of the past while re-narrating history to fine-tune its ideological heritage in a state-endorsed and state-endorsing TV drama. The serial’s interweaving of selected historical times allows for the experience of alternative narrative times, constructing what I refer to as resistance time, Manichaean time, and restoration time. In this play with temporality, each time serves in different ways as a promotion of a particular ideological understanding of Syria.
AB - Regaining control of Aleppo was an important symbolic victory for the Syrian state army, which has opened the way for state-sanctioned narrations of ‘post-war’ Syria. To elucidate the workings of this narration, I explore the TV drama Haris al-Quds (2020) as a fascinating window into Syrian state ideology in Bashar al-Assad’s ‘post-war’ Syria. I argue that the Syrian state holds on to future visions of the past while re-narrating history to fine-tune its ideological heritage in a state-endorsed and state-endorsing TV drama. The serial’s interweaving of selected historical times allows for the experience of alternative narrative times, constructing what I refer to as resistance time, Manichaean time, and restoration time. In this play with temporality, each time serves in different ways as a promotion of a particular ideological understanding of Syria.
U2 - 10.1080/19436149.2023.2229188
DO - 10.1080/19436149.2023.2229188
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 305
EP - 321
JO - Middle East Critique
JF - Middle East Critique
SN - 1943-6149
IS - 3
ER -
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