Najat Alsheridah
Biographic Data
| ID | 6190067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Najat Alsheridah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Najat |
| FAMILY NAME | Alsheridah |
| SIGNATURE | ALSHERIDAH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5944-7742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Do You See Me Now?” Gender, Glocalization, and the Strategic Appropriation of Gulf Tropes in Netflix’s The Exchange
This article examines The Exchange (2023), Netflix’s first Kuwaiti original series, as an example of how the platform negotiates cultural specificity within an environment shaped by regulatory oversight and representational constraint. Set in Kuwait’s 1980 financial sector, the series reworks familiar melodramatic tropes with a focus on women’s ambition and economic agency. Drawing on a textual analysis and close examination of paratextual materi…
The Resistive Gaze in Kuwaiti Screendance
This article examines representations of women performing the zar dance in the Kuwaiti film Alsamt/The Silence (1979) and television show Mohammed Ali Road (2020). A review of scholarship overviews the history of the zar dance in Kuwait and examines representations of women’s dance in Kuwaiti screendance. A comparative analysis of the zar dance scenes in Alsamt and Mohammed Ali Road considers the reasons why the latter exemplar was censored from …
Averting the Gaze
In Kuwait, women are prohibited from dancing in public; however, dancing in private spaces is allowed. As a result of government censorship, socio-cultural values, and commercial marketability examples of women dancing in Kuwaiti film and television are exceedingly rare. However, recently, Manaf Abdal’s steaming television series Mohammed Ali Road (2020) included representations of Kuwaiti women performing a zar dance. Although the scene was show…
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The Resistive Gaze in Kuwaiti Screendance
This article examines representations of women performing the zar dance in the Kuwaiti film Alsamt/The Silence (1979) and television show Mohammed Ali Road (2020). A review of scholarship overviews the history of the zar dance in Kuwait and examines representations of women’s dance in Kuwaiti screendance. A comparative analysis of the zar dance scenes in Alsamt and Mohammed Ali Road considers the reasons why the latter exemplar was censored from …
Averting the Gaze
In Kuwait, women are prohibited from dancing in public; however, dancing in private spaces is allowed. As a result of government censorship, socio-cultural values, and commercial marketability examples of women dancing in Kuwaiti film and television are exceedingly rare. However, recently, Manaf Abdal’s steaming television series Mohammed Ali Road (2020) included representations of Kuwaiti women performing a zar dance. Although the scene was show…
“Do You See Me Now?” Gender, Glocalization, and the Strategic Appropriation of Gulf Tropes in Netflix’s The Exchange
This article examines The Exchange (2023), Netflix’s first Kuwaiti original series, as an example of how the platform negotiates cultural specificity within an environment shaped by regulatory oversight and representational constraint. Set in Kuwait’s 1980 financial sector, the series reworks familiar melodramatic tropes with a focus on women’s ambition and economic agency. Drawing on a textual analysis and close examination of paratextual materi…
Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Dance (2 works) · Gaze (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Ambiguity (1 works) · Appropriation (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works)