TY  - BOOK
AU  - Houssami, Eyad
AU  - Ensemble,Masrah
AU  - Houssami,Eyad
TI  - Doomed by hope: essays on Arab theatre 
SN  - 1849648298
AV  - PN1589.A65 H68 2012
U1  - 792.0956 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Theater
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - P.B; P.B; Includes bibliographical references; Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Hope Arising from Despair -- Elias Khoury -- List of Plates -- 1. Introduction -- Eyad Houssami -- 2. Refugees on the Syrian Stage: Soirée for the 5th of June -- Edward Ziter -- 3. Saadallah Wannous in Palestine: On and Offstage Performances and Pedagogies -- Rania Jawad -- 4. Performance through the Egyptian Revolution: Stories from Tahrir -- Dalia Basiouny -- 5. Three Egyptian Plays in the Wake of the January Revolution -- Samia Habib -- 6. Staging a Protest: Socio-Political Critique in Contemporary Yemeni Theatre -- Katherine Hennessey -- 7. The Legacy of Saadallah Wannous and 'Soirée for the 5th of June' amidst the Arab Revolts -- Asaad Al-Saleh -- 8. Emerging Playwrights in Syria -- Meisoun Ali -- 9. Practicing Theatre and Playwriting in Damascus -- Abdullah Al Kafri -- 10. '12 Angry Lebanese' in Roumieh Prison -- Zeina Daccache -- 11. What has Slipped Away is So Far, and What is Yet to Come So Close -- Rabih Mroué -- 12. Shakespeare, Global Debris, and International Political Theatre -- Sulayman Al Bassam -- 13. The Things I am Afraid to Tell You: Performing Palestine in Diaspora -- Joseph Shahadi -- 14. Doomed by "Dialogue," Saved by Curiosity? Post-9/11 Arab Performances under American Eyes -- Margaret Litvin -- 15. Remembering Saadallah Wannous -- Jawad Al Asadi -- Contributor Biographies
N2  - A beautifully presented collection of essays by writers and artists which traces the history of contemporary Arab theatre
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