This article explores the television adaptation of Sonallah Ibrahim’s novel Zaat, arguing that Zaat provides us with an interesting representation of the various ways in which national projects in Egypt are gendered that adds to feminist debates around nationalism, capitalism and gender. In particular, the focus on the intimate in Zaat reveals the ways in which political projects are represented in the domestic sphere through the lens of women’s work. I explore two themes: the increasing financial pressure and the effects this has on constructions of masculinity and femininity; and the steady decay of infrastructure and social services and the ways in which this renders middle-class life an impossibility. I argue that by focusing on the intimate, Ibrahim’s novel and the TV adaptation both reveal the various forms of work women perform as well as makes use of women’s work to critique or celebrate different national projects.

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Sonallah Ibrahim 和 Miriam Naoum 的 Zaat

本文探讨了索纳拉·易卜拉欣 (Sonallah Ibrahim) 的小说《扎特》(Zaat) 的电视改编版本，认为扎特 (Zaat) 为我们提供了对埃及国家项目性别化的各种方式的有趣表现，这些方式增加了围绕民族主义、资本主义和性别的女权主义辩论。特别是，Zaat 对亲密关系的关注揭示了政治项目通过女性工作的视角在家庭领域中的表现方式。我探讨了两个主题：不断增加的财务压力及其对男性气质和女性气质的构建的影响；基础设施和社会服务的不断衰退以及这使中产阶级生活变得不可能的方式。我认为通过专注于亲密，