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Does the drama scenario have a societal goal, If the power to change is in your hands, what changes
whether positive or negative? would you like to see in the Egyptian drama? (number of
The majority of the comments agreed that dramatic episodes, goals, etc.)

Some of them noted that all dramas should not exceed 7 or 10
art has an impact, whether positive or negative, and episodes at most in order to avoid repetition, as if the works
that it is rarely made with a specific objective in aired during the Ramadan season had become like this, we
mind. Despite this, we can conclude that the series will create a wide range of unique projects. Some of them saw
"The Choice," with its two parts, intends to educate the work as including new faces with real talent and
empowering young content makers on social media, and they
people and remind them of a period that did not go agreed that the script should be distinguished by its

forgotten, as does the series "The Peacock." Which uniqueness and originality, drawing from old and young
aimed to bring justice to the Fairmont girl's case and creators and writers, raising the viewer's mentality and taking
ensure that an incident like her would not be easily into account different age groups, and they called for more
forgotten or the perpetrators would be able to evade censorship on business to prevent vulgarity.
their crime, and many works were also launched that
discussed issues of harassment, rape, and adoption,
and dropped many scenes on specific facts and
incidents.

Has Arabic drama begun to be influenced by foreign
drama?
Views differed, but most agreed that Arab drama has begun to
approach foreign drama in terms of script, plot, number of
episodes, and directing, with the most prominent example
being the star / Youssef Al Sharif, who comes out every
Ramadan season with an unprecedented work that deserves to
compete strongly with foreign works. The most recent is the
"Covid 25" series, in which he was similarly interested in short
work and produced only 15 episodes. Some programs are
inspired by other works, such as the Egyptian comedy series
"100 Wesh," which is comparable to the Spanish series "La Is the trend of drama to explore real issues that are near to
Casa De Papel." and the series “Ma Wara' Al-Tabeea" which is the audience due to the widespread of these issues or is it
shot and directed in a style comparable to the American horror motivated by a desire to raise awareness of them?
series "Lock" & Key." Some of them noticed that a large Opinions diverged. Some of them observed that most dramas
number of viewers tended to use the Netflix platform and focus on people's realities and do not present an event unless it
Watch it to follow international drama while abandoning has already occurred, so you do not find anything new to
Arabic drama, so some Arabic production companies limited society, as the work's writer is always looking for what touches
their series to showing their series as a premiere exclusively on people's lives to ensure the work's success; Others believed that
Netflix and Watch it platforms, such as the Jordanian series the work's creators only pursue personal interests, regardless of
“Al Rawabi School.” for girls” and others. the vision and message that the work conveys.

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