Received Date: 08/05/2019 • Accepted Date: 03/02/2020
Introduction
For more than 5 years, the story of Manar and Kamal, the main characters of the Turkish soap opera1 Samhini (Beni Affet in Turkish) kept more than 4 million Moroccan spectators2 on the edge of their seats every evening. Dubbed into Darija, a Moroccan dialect of Arabic, the soap opera with its numerous twists and vagaries, and its endless intrigues, became the archetypal image of Turkish soap operas for Moroccans.