- Muʿīn Basīsū’s (1927 – 1984, Palestine) play Maʾsāh Jifārā (‘Guevara’s tragedy’, 1969) centers the Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and the search for his Arab counterpart. Basīsū, being mainly a poet, uses poetic language to depict the hardships of farmers in Bolivia in a village where the corpse of Guevara is exposed to tourists for a fee by government authorities, while many of the villagers barely know who the revolutionary is (reference). The play touches on certain social and political taboos, such as government monopoly on knowledge (reference).
Refrences:
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- Nūrhān Sharaf al-Dīn. 2023. “Safr ʿAbr al-Zamān wa al-Makān li-ʾIḥyāʾ Thawrāt Fashilat … Muʿīn Basīsū.” www.raseef22.net, 11 May 2023, https://raseef22.net/article/1092946-%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%B1-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%81%D8%B4%D9%84%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88 (last accessed 2 December 2023)