ALIF 39

Alif  39 (2019): Transnational Drama: Theater and Performance

English and French Section: 

• Randa Sabry: Catharsis et théâtrothérapie : L’utopie ludique dans L’île des esclaves de Marivaux
• Emily Sibley: Redefining Theater: Yusuf Idris’s al-Farāfīr and the Work of Cultural Decolonization
• Merve Tabur: A View from the Moon: Allegories of Representation in Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm and H. G. Wells
• Youssef Yacoubi: Saddīkī’s Textual Recoveries: Arab Theater as Biofacticity
• Bojana Coulibaly: Senegalese Theater Unabashed: Wolof Drama and Cultural Liberation
• Kai Hang Cheang: Performativity in Black Internationalist Poetics as Exemplified in Robeson and Hughes
• Frank Bradley: Outside Looking in: Unexpected Encounters of Dramatic Time and Place
• Asaad Alsaleh: Approaching Sa‘dallāh Wannūs’s Drama: The Manifestos for a New Arab Theater

Arabic Section:

• Sabry Hafez: Arab Political Issues in Contemporary English Theater
• Khalid Amine: Alternative Dramaturgy in Contemporary Arab Theater and Postdramatic Issues
• Manal al-Natour: Women, Memory, and War in Syria: Emerging Dramatic Texts
• Mustafa Riad: Al-Masraḥ, the Magazine of Theater Culture: The Phoenix’s Multiple Risings
• Nora Amin: El-Warsha: First Independent Egyptian Theater Troupe
• Mounira Soliman: Reflections on What Is Unsaid by Scheherazade: From Creativity to Performance
• Robert J. C. Young: Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright (Translated by Ramy Amin)
• Hoda Wasfi: Theater as Cultural Project (Interview)