المجلة الجزائرية للاتصال
Volume 9, Numéro 18, Pages 45-59
2004-01-01

Arab And European Satellites Over The Maghreb

Authors : Ahmed Bedjaoui .

Abstract

Since the middle of the ninetieth century, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have been living between the Arab identity embodied by the Nahda in the Mashrek and the European cultural influence represented by the French ambivalent colonial system. Mainly because they belonged to the French colonial empire, the Maghrebi people have a long tradition of film goers before becoming telrvision watchers. The beginning of television reception came in the late fifties when the three countries of the Northern part of the Maghreb were still under the French rule. The first transmission started in 1957 in Algeria, still considered as part of France. Actually, the launching of local television stations was a response to the successful propaganda programme developed by the algerian Liberation Army through the production of a series of films.

Keywords

Arab identity, Satellites, Propaganda, television