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In your opinion, what is the reason for the change in the Were people’s awareness and taste reflected on the
style of Arab drama? production companies? In what image is consciousness
Everyone stated that change is one of the universal rules that and taste reflected?

affect everything; it is inevitable for change to occur in The responses were contradictory, with the majority pointing
Arabic drama during the sixty years since the first drama was to the fact that the plays became known under the motto
released. They all saw how cameras, broadcasts, and direction "what viewers demand"! There is no doubt that people's tastes
would change the shape and content of drama, and it is have varied between comedy, tragedy, and melodrama, and
difficult to imagine an old drama being re-filmed today and Ramadan’s drama race is not devoid of all kinds of drama,
receiving the same reactions. In terms of plot and content, the and almost no season passes without the production of a
emergence of a group of creative writers with unprecedented dramatic work that re-imagines recent events and political
creative thinking, as well as the accumulation of experiences conflicts and immortalizes the armed forces' and police's
and replication of foreign drama, contributed to the victories over terrorists such as "Al-Ekhtyar 1 and Al-Ekhtyar
emergence of original works that are not boring or repeated. 2".Some said that since foreign drama has been more popular
than Arabic drama, such as a significant number of Turkish
dramas, Arab drama has tended to mimic foreign in more
than one element, most notably the scenario and dialogue,
such as the series "Lea La" in its parts, and "Al-Deeb" and
"Shaa’a 6." Some argue that what we see is not necessarily a
reflection of people's awareness and taste, but that production
companies seek to make huge profits through acts of vanity
and vulgarity, focusing solely on provoking the scenes in
various ways without taking into account the different age
groups, and transferring the culture of decadence and low
taste to the Egyptian house. This can be found in works such
as "Taqa Noor" and "Molok of Al-Jada'anah."

What effect has the evolution of social media had on
dramatic content?
Everyone agreed that the majority of dramas get their ideas
from social networking sites; since these sites have become the
present society's main hub, through which one can learn about
what is going on among people, what they are gathering to and
what they are unwilling to do. In addition, by uploading certain
video or analysing and criticizing some scenes, you can get
some free indirect advertisement.

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