Cultural and Literary Heritage

Lutfi Achour’s (?, Tunisia) play Macbeth: Leïla & Ben – A Bloody History (2012). Using Tunisian Arabic, French, and Italian,…

Aḥmad ʿIthmān’s (1945 – 2013, Egypt) drama play Ḥasnāʾ fī Sijn Suqrāṭ (written in 1987 and printed in 2004, English

ʿAlī Badr (?, Iraq) – Bābā Sārtre (2001, English trans. Papa Sartre, 2009). This novel retrospectively critiques, through systematic and

ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAlūllah’s (1939 – 1994, Algeria) uses elements of Brecht’s theater (such as the epic theatre) next to traditional

ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAlūllah’s (1939 – 1994, Algeria) play Ḥumq Salīm (‘Salim’s Madness’, 1972). This play is based is a monologue

Khalīl Ṣuwaylīh (1959-, Syria) – Awrāq al-Ḥubb (2008, English trans. Writing Love, 2012) centres on a womanizing, aspiring novelist based

ʿAlī Badr (?, Iraq) – Maṣābīḥ Urshalīm (‘Jerusalem lantern’, 2006). This novel is a fictional portrayal of the Palestinian-American professor