Shakespeare in the Arab World

On Shakespeare translations, productions, adaptations, spin-offs, and parodies in Arab countries as well as Arab-themed Shakespeare uses elsewhere. Comments and suggestions to arabshakespeare [at] gmail.com.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

New Hamlet-alluding Adonis collection

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Adonis has a new poetry collection , just out this year, with a Hamlet-themed long poem in it. (Cover art is by Adonis as well.) The poem is...

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Al-Bassam's Richard III staged in Kuwait

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As far as I know, this is the first staging in the Arab world of one of Sulayman Al-Bassam's Arabic-language Shakespeare adaptations....

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Yvette Khoury on Akhir Yom

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Akhir Yom (The Last Day): A Localized Arabic Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Yvette K. Khoury theatre research international · ...

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Al-Bassam's RIII coming to Kennedy Center

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Announcement via The Associated Press . Watch how Sulayman's play is again appropriated as the "bridge" between cultures or ev...

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Holderness on Al-Bassam

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Graham Holderness has an article on Sulayman Al-Bassam's Shakespeare adaptations in the current European Journal of English Studies (Vo...

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Villain Steals the Show (Claudius article)

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The current Journal of Arabic Literature has my piece on versions of Claudius in post-1975 Arab appropriations of Hamlet . Basically I argu...

Bayer on Arab Merchant of Venice

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Periodically when you're talking about Arab Shakespeare appropriation some mischievous soul will ask: "So, what do they do with The...

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