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comedy trio Samir Ghanim, George Sidhum, and Dayf Ahmad. The program was sus-
pended in 1967 because of the June war and was revived after a ¤ve-year hiatus.
26. For this history of Fawazir Ramadan I am indebted to Khaled el-Shami, Thomas
Gorguissian and El-Sayyid el-Aswad.
27. The Radio and Television Building is on the edge of the lower-class neighborhood
of Bulaq. In recent years the state has sought to remove longtime residents of this highly
visible (to foreigners) neighborhood to make way for high-pro¤le modern developments
geared to the global economy (see Ghannam 1998).
28. Calls to “put the Christ back in Christmas” are historical nonsense. A more ac-
curate demand, as Nissenbaum (1996) implies, might be to “put the carnival back in
Christmas.”

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