Despite the intoxicating growth, the sector faces significant friction.
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For decades, the global perception of Arab entertainment was narrowly defined by two extremes: the golden age of Egyptian cinema’s melancholic divas and the 21st-century spectacle of glitzy, petro-dollar fueled reality TV. However, to categorize the modern landscape of by these tropes is to ignore a seismic cultural revolution.