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The Changing Identity of a Living Secular Icon: Al Mayadeen’s Iconization of Jamila Bouhired

Issue 27, winter/spring 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/CC27ALJB Abstract In December 2013, the pan-Arab TV station Al Mayadeen orchestrated a big public celebration of the former female fighter Jamila Bouhired. In this article, I analyze Al Mayadeen’s celebration of Bouhired as an iconization (Khalili 2009) and investigate how the TV station uses the …

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