O Clone
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Glória Pérez
Written by	Glória Pérez
Directed by	Teresa Lampreia Marcelo Travesso
Starring	Giovanna Antonelli Murilo Benício Reginaldo Faria Adriana Lessa and more
Opening theme	Sob o Sol
Country of origin	Brazil
Language(s)	Portuguese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	221
Production
Location(s)	Rio de Janeiro Morroco
Cinematography	Jayme Monjardim Mário Márcio Bandarra Marcos Schechtmann
Running time	50 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Rede Globo
Original run	October 1, 2001 – June 14, 2002

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Plot

In early 1980s, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jade (Giovanna Antonelli), a young muslimah girl gets orphan and has to go back to Morroco where the rest of her family lives. The problem is that Jade, living in a country with a culture so different from Islam put her religion aside. There, she must adjust to the new way of living, with all the punishment she will be exposed.

Back in Rio, a well-positioned family, the Ferras, go to vacation to Morroco. Twin brothers Lucas and Diogo Ferras (Murilo Benício), along with Leonidas (Reginaldo Faria), their father and doctor Augusto Albieri, friend of the family and scientist visit Alí, that is friend of Albieri. There, Lucas and Jade met, and they fall in love. Jade, knowing it's a haraam (sin) to love Lucas, puts her new passion in first place; knowing she will be forced to marry a stranger, make plans to run away with Lucas, but he will have problems of his own. In Rio, Diogo has an accident in his helicopter and dies. Both Lucas and Leonidas get really hurted and his plans of living with Jade get ruined. But who is really hurted with Diogo's dead is Albieri, his godparent.

He and Diogo were so close that he decided to (with a cell of Lucas) make the very first human clone, and is Deusa, a low-middle class woman, who will be giving to birth to this human, unknowing it's a clone. Léo borns without complications, but Albieri wants to keep in sight his growning, causing in Léo a fascination with the doctor, leaving Deusa very mad. Then the story comes to present, with Jade married to Said (Dalton Vigh) and mother of a little child, Khadija. With her new encounter with Lucas, the old passion revive, but they're not the youngs they were anymore and now they have a life, a family. Lucas, who also is married, to Maysa (Daniela Escobar) and have a daughter, Mel (Débora Falabella) doesn't even imagined he was cloned 20 years ago, and Albieri keep this secret far from everybody, trying to make that Léo and Lucas never find the truth. The last thing Albieri knew form Léo is that he and Deusa went to the north of Brazil, but the returning of both, with he as a man, the living image of that young Lucas Jade met in Morroco will change the life of all characters of this telenovela forever. The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... This article is about the Brazilian city. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... For other uses, see Orphan (disambiguation). ... The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in northwest Africa. ... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... For people named Islam, see Islam (name). ... This article is about the Brazilian city. ... The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in northwest Africa. ... For other uses, see Twin (disambiguation). ... Look up Brother in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Brother may have the following meanings, in addition to and derived from its main one of male sibling; see Family. a male friend or acquaintance, in some cultures shortened to Bro or Brah a peer, male or female (though such usage is... This article is about the profession. ... harām (Arabic: حرام Ḥarām, Turkish: Haram, Malay: Haram) is an Arabic word, used in Islam to refer to anything that is prohibited by the faith. ... For other uses, see Sin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Brazilian city. ... For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ... A godparent, in many denominations of Christianity, is someone who sponsors a childs baptism. ... Drawing of the structure of cork as it appeared under the microscope to Robert Hooke from Micrographia which is the origin of the word cell being used to describe the smallest unit of a living organism Cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green) The cell is the... Although genes are recognized as influencing [behavior] and [cognition], genetically identical does not mean altogether identical; identical twins, despite being natural human clones with near identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see Birth (disambiguation). ... Look up clone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the decade of 2000-2009. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Syndication

O Clone aired in Brazil in 221 episodes, of changeable duration. However, when syndicated and selled to other countries the telenovela get the number of episodes enlarged to 250 and the duration stated to 45 minutes. O Clone was a big hit, being aired in several countries all around the world. It was dubbed in several languages too, with the Spanish version airing in the United States by Telemundo. In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. ... Telemundo is an American television network based in Hialeah, Florida. ...

Portrayal of Muslims

While the program's attention to issues of drug addiction won its creator an award, the portrayal of Arab-Muslim cultures within the program has brought a critical response from different Arab-Muslim sources, according to a 2005 doctoral dissertation written about the program by Elizabeth Barbosa.^[1]

The part of the program dealing with Islamic customs and attitudes mixes traditions from diverse countries, rather than those of Morocco alone, and has been criticised for its inaccurate representation of these traditions, according to Barbosa. These criticisms include the portrayal of polygamy as commonly accepted in Morocco, women as rarely working outside the home or pursuing an advanced education, and women having only unimportant roles within the family. Critics making these judgments included sheik Abdelmalek Cherkaoui Ghazouani, the Moroccan ambassador to Brazil, who considered the high profile of these representations to merit his posting his criticisms directly on his embassy's website as part of a bulletin board. Polygamy has been a feature of human culture since earliest history. ... For other uses, see Ambassador (disambiguation). ... Look up bulletin board, notice board in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

In addition to sources from the print media, Barbosa presents several messages from online forums that she analyzed for her study. Messages from viewers asserting Arab-Muslim descent made such comments as, "I'm Moroccan. And i do HATE the way they portray the culture and everything sometimes ... [N]umerous people have asked me silly questions about Morocco because they believe the novela word for word ... ."

See also

• Somatic cell nuclear transfer
• Human cloning

In genetics and developmental biology, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a laboratory technique for creating an ovum with a donor nucleus (see process below) . It can be used in embryonic stem cell research, or in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning. ... Although genes are recognized as influencing [behavior] and [cognition], genetically identical does not mean altogether identical; identical twins, despite being natural human clones with near identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities. ...

External links

• oclone.on.neobee.net

Notes

1. ^ *The Brazilian Telenovela El Clon: An Analysis of Viewers' Online Vicarious and Virtual Learning Experiences, doctoral dissertation on the program, Elizabeth Barbosa