In the golden era of Arab television, the concept of a "romantic storyline" was often a chaste, sidelined affair. A longing glance across a Cairo street. A heavily metaphorical poem recited over the phone. A marriage agreed upon in a family majlis before the couple has ever held hands. However, the landscape of romantic storytelling on Arab tube networks—particularly those aligning with the values of the Islamic Broadcasting Union (IBU)—is undergoing a quiet revolution.
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