What is it about?
It looks at celebrity visits to Bahrain, and argues that their visit mask human rights abuses by distracting people from important issues
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Why is it important?
In today's celebrity culture, the visits of celebrities should not be innocuous events, but contested occurrences that can act as propaganda and PR for rights abusing reigmes
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If you think Kim Kardashian going to the Gulf is trivial, then you should read this
Dr. Marc Owen Jones
Northwestern University
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This page is a summary of: Nation branding and celebrity diplomacy in Bahrain, Celebrity Studies, April 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2017.1312083.
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