Missionizing Affects

Abstract This article examines the fictionalized retelling of a real 2017 controversy, after images proliferated fans raising rainbow flag during Lebanese band Mashrou Leila’s concert in Egypt solidarity with band’s openly queer frontman. It Egyptian musalsal or Arabic-language drama serial, ‘ Awalem Khafeya , Hidden Worlds and suggests that program engages ‘recoding’ these events, where violent state crackdowns are restaged to cultivate different affects feelings around troubled sovereignty. The production is situated within Saudi Arabian contexts, aired ‘anti-corruption’ betray anxieties economic liberalization. analyzed demonstrate how recoding operates, reflecting potential for failed platforms new questions about content territory. Ultimately, offers as diagnostic power digital media age, nations face crisis sovereignty they articulate themselves global marketplace.