“Satellite Telefizyoon” explores how nationalist media uses women’s bodies to promote state modernizing projects.
Sourced from YouTube, the work takes all of its visual content from a popular 1980s Egyptian television quiz show featured during Ramadan. “Satellite Telefizyoon” highlights the willingness of Egyptian media to engage, reproduce, and distribute stereotypical depictions of other cultures in order to highlight the state’s modernizing project in the 1980s.