Historical Re-Enactments
In the capstone seminar, "The Marriage Crisis and the Middle East," students perform before their peers and professors historical re-enactments based on early 20th-century Egyptian court cases.
Throughout the semester, students work closely together to research the marital, social, political and economic issues as well as the historical setting of their cases and the legal rights of their characters. They then write the script, find the attire and props appropriate to 1920s Cairo and perform a historically and legally accurate re-enactment of the cases at the end of the semester.
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