Some family members have accepted the proposal, but Zein, 15, insists she's too young and doesn't want to get engaged.
How will the problem be resolved? Tune in for the next installment of Seriously Joking, the first Palestinian television soap opera.
Produced by Bethlehem TV, a Palestinian production company based in the West Bank town best known as the biblical birthplace of Jesus, the 13-part nighttime drama is aimed at Palestinians in their teens and 20s.
Seriously Joking is no Dallas or Dynasty. There are no melodramatic scenes accompanied by swelling music, no tangled love stories. Characters aren't miraculously resurrected as Dallas' Bobby Ewing was one season after his apparent death. If anything, Seriously Joking is closer to British soaps that tend to focus on the nitty-gritty of characters' lives such as the BBC's Eastenders, set in downtrodden East London.
Seriously Joking's appeal is that unlike other fare on Palestinian TV, it focuses on everyday life. It also shatters Palestinians' stereotypes about themselves. "The people in the soap are not dressed in traditional clothing and talking all the time about Palestine and the nation," says Raed Othman, executive producer. "It's about ordinary people."
Show addresses serious issues
The soap revolves around the children of two Palestinian Muslim families and a Palestinian Christian family.
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FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-02-palestinian-soap-opera_x.htm
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