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Modern Arabic Literature:A Bibliography
Ragai N. Makar
Scarecrow Press
Lanham, MD and London
1998
xiii + 255 pp.
ISBN 0 8108 3539 8
£67.50
Scarecrow Area Bibliography Series,No. 17
Distributed in the UK by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone
Keywords Literature, Arab countries
A history of drama might begin in Egypt: the “Pyramid Texts” (c. 2800 bc) evidently included dramatic scenes about the spirit’s passage from this life to the next. The father of modern Arab theatre was the Egyptian dramatist Tawfiq al‐Hakim (1899‐1987). The form of his later work was influenced by the Theatre of the Absurd; his central themes seem...
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