Syria
Syrian soap operas took off in the 1990s, when satellite-television access increased across the Arab world, and were watched by tens of millions of people from Morocco to the Persian Gulf. As a consequence of the Syrian civil war, Syrian production companies have shelved new shows and viewers throughout the Arab world have called for a boycott of Syrian satellite channels. A tax break issued by the government has failed to revive the industry. In 2010, some 30 Syrian soaps were aired during Ramadan, some of them only in Syria, but most of them on pan-Arab satellite channels.
Syrian musalselat have become one of the country's most prized exports, and are very popular in the Gulf countries. Following the onset of the 2011 Syrian uprising, some have called for a boycott of Syrian musalselat.
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