Volume 1

Brecht’s Theatre and Social Change in Egypt (1954–71)

Brecht’s Theatre and Social Change in Egypt (1954–71)
by Magdi Youssef
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

In the Brecht International Dialogue, held in Berlin in 1968, it was …

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Re-orienting Orientalism: From Shafik Gabr’s What Orientalist Painters Can Teach Us About The Art Of East–West Dialogue to Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced

Re-orienting Orientalism: From Shafik Gabr’s
What Orientalist Painters Can Teach Us
About The Art Of East–West Dialogue
to Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
by Fawzia Afzal-Khan
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
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Now I will believe that there are unicorns: The Improbable History of Shakespeare in Yemen

Now I will believe that there are unicorns:
The Improbable History of Shakespeare in Yemen
by Katherine Hennessey
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

The central display of Prospero’s …

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Radhouane El Meddeb’s Experiments With Gender: In Search of New Bodies

Radhouane El Meddeb’s Experiments With Gender:
In Search of New Bodies
by Omar Fertat
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

In a recent interview Rabih Mroué, the Lebanese theatre …

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Coptic Christian Theatre in Egypt: Negotiations Between The Minority and The Majority

Coptic Christian Theatre in Egypt:
Negotiations Between The Minority and The Majority
by Mohammed Musad
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

Coptic theatre is rich in contradictions. Its presence …

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A New Perspective on Mikhail Ruman’s Smoke in A President of His Own Republic

A New Perspective on Mikhail Ruman’s
Smoke in A President of His Own Republic
by Anwaar Abdelkhalik Abdalla
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

Mikhail Ruman (1927–1973) is believed …

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Kheireddine Lardjam, Traveller Between Two Shores

Kheireddine Lardjam, Traveler Between Two Shores
by Marina Da Silva
This article first appeared in
Theater im arabischen Sprachraum/Theatre in the Arab World
Edited by Rolf C. Hemke, Theater der Zeit, 2013
It is reproduced with permission from the publishing 
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Where Theatre Has Failed—The Syrians Omar Abusaada and Mohammad Al Attar

Where Theatre Has Failed—The Syrians
Omar Abusaada and Mohammad Al Attar
by Rolf C. Hemke
This article first appeared in
Theater im arabischen Sprachraum/Theatre in the Arab World
Edited by Rolf C. Hemke, Theater der Zeit, 2013
It is reproduced 
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The Arab Aristophanes

The Arab Aristophanes by Marvin Carlson
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

This article appeared in the Summer, 2013 issue of Comparative Drama (151–66) and received the 2014 Oscar

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Rolf C. Hemke’s Theatre in the Arab World : Struggling Against Insurmountable Odds

Rolf C. Hemke’s Theatre in the Arab World:
Struggling Against Insurmountable Odds
A Book Review by Michael Malek Najjar
Theatre in the Arab World/Theater im arabischen Sprachraum
Edited by Rolf C. Hemke, Theater der Zeit, 2013
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Solitaire

Solitaire, an Egyptian Multimedia Performance by Dalia Basiouny
 ­Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

This is a section from a larger play that traces the lives of three Egyptian

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The Imam and The Homosexual

The Imam and The Homosexual by Jamil Khoury
 Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

The Imam and The Homosexual was released in video form on the Silk Road Rising

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Malumat: Resources for Research, Writing/Publishing, Teaching, & Performing Arts

Malumat:
Resources for Research, Writing/Publishing, Teaching, & Performing Arts
Compiled by Kate Wilson
  Arab StagesVolume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications

RESEARCH
Research Grants: Jordan (and Levant region)
Deadline: February 1, …

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