| ID | 124475 |
| Title Proper | Didactic entertainment |
| Other Title Information | the Moroccan police journal and the origins of the Arabic police procedural |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Smolin , Jonathan |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article traces the ways that the Moroccan Police Journal, a state-produced periodical that first appeared in 1961, constructed and disseminated an aspirational identity for the Moroccan police, one that was radically distinct from the image of the brutal security forces of the Protectorate period. Unlike other state-produced periodicals in Morocco or the Middle East at the time, Police Journal included fictional short stories written in the form of a police procedural, a genre that places a real-world criminal detective in the center of a narrative depicting a believable police investigation into a puzzling crime. As this article shows, these stories are the first examples of police procedurals in the Arabic language. The article examines three stories from Police Journal, tracing how they projected a new professional institutional culture for the police in the era of independence and served as both didactic pieces for police readers and entertaining works of fiction for the literate public. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol.45, No.4; 2013: p.695-714 |
| Journal Source | International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol.45, No.4; 2013: p.695-714 |
| Key Words | Morocco ; Arab ; Moroccan Police ; Arab Police ; Police Procedural - Arab - Moroccan ; Origin of Police - Arabs ; Police Journal ; History and Origins ; Social Developments ; Middle East ; Radically Distinct ; Aspirational Identity ; Moroccan Police Journal ; Crime ; Civil Disputes |