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This paper argues for a transformation of finance to support the economic and social transformation of the Middle East and North Africa. The paper first documents the existing financial system in the region. The system is heavily skewed toward banking, relative to non-banking services, such as stock and corporate bond markets, with significant heterogeneity across countries. Second, the paper discusses the stance of macroeconomic policy in the region, which has had important implications for the destination, profitability, and quality of bank lending and the limited evolution of the financial system. Third, the paper explores the impact of technology on financial development, with particular attention to prospects for the development of fintechs. Entrenched incumbency of banks has limited the role of non-bank operators in fostering market contestability and fintech development. The paper is a call to the authorities and policy makers in the Middle East and North Africa to break with the status quo and business as usual. It underscores the need for a "moonshot approach" focused on establishing the foundations of a new digital economy and its role in promoting a well-functioning and inclusive financial economy to support the development needs of the region.

Banking --- Digital Divide --- Digital Economy --- Economic Growth --- Finance and Development --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Structures --- Financial System --- Financial Technology --- Fintech --- Information and Communication Technologies --- Information Technology --- Macroeconomic Policy --- Social Transformation --- Structural Transformation

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Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various forms of cultural and political critique. These narratives have become complicated since the uprising due to the Syrian regime's effort to control the revolutionary discourse. As Syria's uprising spawned more terrorist groups, some drama creators became nostalgic for pre-war days. While for some screenwriters a return to pre-2011 life would be welcome after so much bloodshed, others advocated profound cultural and social transformation, instead. They employed marriage and gender metaphors in the stories they wrote to engage in political critique, even at the risk of creating marketing difficulties for the shows or they created escapist stories such as transnational adaptations and Old Damascus tales. Serving as heritage preservation, Mediating the Uprising underscores that television drama creators in Syria have many ways of engaging in protest, with gender and marriage at the heart of the polemic.

Marriage on television. --- Masculinity on television. --- Sex on television. --- Sex role on television. --- Television programs --- Women on television. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Women in television --- Women in television plays --- Television --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Sex role in television --- Sex in television --- Social aspects --- gender, marriage, Syrian, Television Drama, Global, Politics, Mediating, Uprising, Women's Studies, Film, Media Studies, Communications, Middle East Studies, Popular Culture, Political Science, World, Middle Eastern, Performing Arts, Television, History, Criticism, Social Science, Qabaday, constructing, Fatherhood, Political Protest, post-uprising, cultural critique, political critique, Syrian regime, revolutionary, terrorist groups, nostalgic, pre-war, bloodshed, cultural tranformation, social transformation, culture, transformation, critique, father, mother, motherhood. --- Literature