Media and Communication in the Middle East and Africa

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Around 15 years ago, I played a role in helping Turkish drama to launch itself into becoming a global entertainment phenomena. It started in the MENA region where Turkish long series of 100+ episodes had a huge unprecedented success. Turkish series till now continue to appeal to millions of Arab audience, however two new facts are unmissable: Arab content has risen to the challenge and its quality as well as quantity is much higher than what it was a decade or more ago especially in the new trend of short 10 epiosde series as well as the traditional 30 eps series. Also Turkish scripted formats of 90 eps long series are being produced locally with Arab cast and making big success, relying on using Turkish producers and directors. I believe it is about time to get the help of Turkish partners not only to re-produce Turkish scripted formats locally, but as important, if not more, to help in pushing Arab content globally in the same manner they were able to make Turkey amoung the top 5 international countries in exporting their drama series and formats. Instead of competing, collaboration might be a better way. Our Turkish friends have accumulated practical experiences not only in production of series but also in distribution and getting the know how crucial to such a distribution achievements and we need to make use of such a knowlege. Together we are stronger.This is what my company DKLSTUDIO and MEDIAHUB are trying to do. We are engaging in healthy dialogue with Arab producers, broadcatsers and whoever have IP sitting on their shelves without any commercial exploitation. This road will not lead to magical golden results in one day. It took the Turkish content years to breakthrough and become what it is today. We have to start somewhere and we are. Perhaps Arab content can make it a bit faster, but only with the cooperation of those we helped once upon a time. https://lnkd.in/dHG-5ewR #Turkishseries #ArabSeries #DKLSTUDIO #MEDIAHUB #MENA

Read this "Newswire Press Releases: Do MENA Journalists Pay Attention?" ?? https://bit.ly/4clkTyg In this article, we explore how journalists in the #MENA region interact with the daily press releases they receive. Do they consider them valuable? Do they verify the information independently? We'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences—share them in the comments! ?? #Journalism #MENA #Newswire #PressReleases #MediaRelations #PR #Communications