Du roman Dāt au feuilleton Bint ismaha Zeth ou le traitement de l’Histoire dans une adaptation télévisuelle égyptienne

Abstract

The issue of adapting literary works for television has only recently begun to arouse researchers’ interest. Egypt, the leader country of television production and industry and of the imagining of literary works on television across the Arab world, witnessed a new lease of life from 2011 to 2014. The TV serie Bint ʾismaha Zeth produced in 2013 by Kamla Abouzekri and Khairy Beshara is a striking illustration of the phenomenon. Adapted from the novel Zeth written by Sonallah Ibrahim, the TV fiction retraces through the story of its heroine, the History of Egypt from 1952 to 2011.