Volume 1

Brecht’s Theatre and Social Change in Egypt (1954–71)
by Magdi Youssef
 Arab Stages, Volume 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 …

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 Stages, Volume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2014)
 ©2014 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center 

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

The central display of Prospero’s …

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

In a recent interview Rabih Mroué, the Lebanese theatre …

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

Coptic theatre is rich in contradictions. Its presence …

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

Mikhail Ruman (1927–1973) is believed …

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 

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 

The Arab Aristophanes by Marvin Carlson
 Arab Stages, Volume 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 …

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
 Arab Stages, Volume 

Solitaire, an Egyptian Multimedia Performance by Dalia Basiouny
 ­Arab Stages, Volume 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 …

The Imam and The Homosexual by Jamil Khoury
 Arab Stages, Volume 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 …