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.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Twelfth Night in Damascus

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I just came across the Damascus Shakespeare Festival, and apparently it aspires to be annual. However, t his year's performance of Twelf...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

TV report on Shakespeare festival in Damascus

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TV report here (in Arabic) on recent Shakespeare Festival held in Damascus, including Birmingham Theatre's performance of Twelfth Night ...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Omar Sharif to play King Lear

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From Playbill.com... Sounds wonderful. But how will they avoid allegories about sitting Egyptian presidents?? Sharif Will Star in Egyptian F...

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Nehad Selaiha rereads my dissertation...

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Hamlet galore: Nehad Selaiha enjoys a Hamletian feast at the Creativity Centre http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/963/cu1.htm Of all the foreig...

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Abu Hamlet and Najm are Alive

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A report on a conventional/unconventional Syrian playlet in the (Abu Dhabi) National Haven't seen it -- sounds kind of reminiscent of M...

Monday, August 3, 2009

Khalil Mutran salutes Shaykh Salama Higazi

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Click on photo to enlarge and read poem. From Volume I of Khalil Mutran's diwan (4 vols, 1949), first published 1908. See last two stan...

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Call for Materials - Arab Shakespeare Performance

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The curators of the MIT Shakespeare Electronic Archive ( http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/ , directed by Peter S. Donaldson, Professor of Lite...

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