Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
They can reach wider audiences—and tell untold stories
AT LEAST FOR its first few seconds, “AlRawabi School for Girls” seems set to be just another teen drama. As piano chords ring out in the background, a teenage girl dressed in pink strolls past a school bus. “School was always my favourite place,” she says. Then her classmates assault her. The set-up will be familiar to anyone who has seen “Mean Girls”, an American film of 2004.
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