'Subversive' Turkish TV series takes Arab world by storm (AFP)
                   
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25-Aug-2008 1 related
        

BEIRUT (AFP) - Despite being branded "subversive" and "anti-Islamic" by a top Saudi Muslim cleric, millions of viewers from Beirut to Algiers tune in up to three times a day to watch the Turkish-made soap opera, "Noor", dubbed into Arabic. With his strawberry blond curls, blues eyes and engaging smile, Mohannad is setting the pulses of millions of Arab women racing in a television series critics claim is... [read full story]                    

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