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As one of Egyptian theater's leading contemporary playwrights,
Alfred Farag has had a profound influence on shaping Arabic drama
and Egyptian cultural politics during the past five decades. His
plays interrogate the human condition, exposing the struggles of
nonheroic individuals faced with political, social, and economic
abuse. Farag's dramatic themes, his tireless campaign to
democratize the theater, and his encouragement of cultural
awareness in the remote and rural regions of Egypt in addition to
the cities led to his imprisonment, battles with censorship, and
exile. This remarkable writer's indomitable spirit is clearly
evidenced in his spending a large part of his time while imprisoned
writing plays for performances by his fellow prisons. In the first
book-length examination of his work in English, Dina Amin
chronicles Farag's career and offers a critical perspective on his
creative output and the condition of Egyptian theater in the 1970s
through the 1990s. Farag is best known for the folkloric and
neorealist plays he produced during the sixties, but critics have
consistently overlooked the immense body of work produced in the
thirty years that followed. Filling that gap, Amin offers an
account of the sophisticated development of his later work,
revealing his bold experimentation and successful embrace of
modernist, absurdist, and post-modern styles. With fresh insight,
Amin contextualizes these works within Farag's own creative history
and the larger history of Arabic theater. This book, with the
inclusion of four plays and a monologue (translated for the first
time into English), will bring a much-deserved wider audience to
the work of this extraordinary dramatist.
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