Entertainment-education in the Middle East: Lessons from the Egyptian oral rehydration therapy campaign

Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 301-320

  Abdulla, Rasha A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 84917041110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410609595     Document Type: Chapter

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