Scripting Citizenship: Crime and Investigation in Egyptian Television Drama in the 2010s

How ideas of law, justice, and agency are visualized and contested in Egyptian television crime dramas What has citizenship come to mean in Egypt after 2011?Since 2007, constitutions have proclaimed it as the foundation of Egypt’s democratic system, yet the everyday workings of citizenship often unfold in the shadows of legal texts.Gianluca Parolin thus turns to Egyptian television drama-specifically, the emerging crime genre of the 2010s-to explore how ideas of law, justice, and agency are visualized and contested on screen. Unlike its prominence elsewhere, crime drama has not historically been acknowledged as a distinct genre on Egyptian television.Yet during the 2010s, a recognizable crime formula began to take shape across a large number of incarnations.This book identifies the emergence of this formula, which embodies ways of imagining the relationship between citizens, law, and the state.Through depictions of investigation, policing, and civic intervention, these dramas portray c