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, September 2, 2010

Textual fundamentalists angry at Hani Afifi for postmodern adaptation

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This unknown (to me) reviewer accuses the young adaptor/director Hani Afifi of "betraying Shakespeare's text," which the revie...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

No Othello in Tangiers

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I should clarify that there has been a funny linguistic misunderstanding. Back in June, while I was in Morocco, I misread "Hotel Tanja...

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Othello from Tangiers

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Greetings from Morocco. This is the cover of a new book (apparently) titled Othello of Tangiers. By Tangiers-based writer Zoubeir Ben Boucht...

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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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