Wannous, Syrian and world drama / Marvin Carlson -- Wannous and Brecht : the playwright as political activist / Robert Myers and Nada Saab -- Keeping silent, or the silence that kept Wannous / Zeina G. Halabi -- The failure of revolutionary humanism : reading Wannous with Fanon / Friederike Pannewick -- Historiography as resistance in the later plays of Wannous / Edward Ziter -- Rituals transformed : Wannous, intercultural translation, and the widening gyre / Margaret Litvin -- Speaking the unspeakable : on directing Wannous / Sahar Assaf -- Conversation with contemporary playwright Mohammad Al Attar / Mohammad Al-Attar -- Unpacking Wannous' library / Sonja Mejcher-Atassi -- A student of theatre in Paris / Farouk Mardam-Bey -- Grammar of life and death / Elias Khoury -- Be what you want to be / Dima Wannous.
Summary:
"Most histories of the theatre, if they include the Arab world at all (and Western theatre histories have been shamefully remiss in dealing with this part of our heritage) begin with the staging in Beirut in 1847 of a comedy inspired by Moliere's The Miser. This does not mean that the Arab world had not, for centuries, had a rich tradition of ritual and folk performance, like most of the rest of the world, not to mention the shadow play tradition, including Ibn Daniel, which extends back to the European Middle Ages"-- Provided by publisher.
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