Young Mideast bunch on tour in ‘America’
2008 June 4
June 4, 2008 USA Today, Huffington Post
Tonight, the television series “On the Road in America” will premiere in the United States, showcasing the travels of four Middle Easterners – an Egyptian, Saudi, Palestinian, and Jordanian – across the United States. Already an unprecedented hit on the Arab satellite network MBC1, the show has helped transform adversarial identities in the Middle East, and the show’s producers hope American audiences will reciprocate. Regardless of whether the program will play well or not to the American market, it is already remarkable for its power to “erase cultural stereotypes” abroad. Read more about “On the Road in America” and its mission to eliminate adversarial relationships.
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