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Turkish soap operas helping to liberate women across Muslim world | The National

Turkish soap operas helping to liberate women across Muslim world

Vesela Todorova
November 24, 2013 Updated: November 24, 2013 20:20:00

Turkish soap operas are having an effect on women across the Muslim world, says the director of a documentary filmed partly in Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah.

Nina-Maria Paschalidou’s film Kismet, which is showing at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ahead of a planned broadcast on Al Jazeera TV, examines the reasons behind the explosion in popularity of the soaps in countries from the UAE to Bulgaria and Greece.

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