Dina A. Amin is assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture and theatre at Villanova University and a professional stage director in both the United States and Egypt.
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| Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Poetics | |
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| Alfred Farag and Political Commitment | |
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| Alfred Farag's Drama and the Politics of Identity | |
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| Metadrama: The Poetics of Disguise | |
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| The Theater | |
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| The Sixties: Egyptian Theater in Search of an Identity | |
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| The Seventies: Dramatic Self-consciousness and Drama Against Itself | |
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| The Seventies: Self-conscious Characters and Places of Danger | |
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| Conclusion: Farag's Metadrama, from Formalism to Functionality | |
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| The Plays | |
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| The Visitor | |
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| The Peephole | |
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| The Stranger | |
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| The Egyptian Hay Circle | |
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| The Last Walk: A Monologue | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Theater of the Absurd | |
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| Works by Alfred Farag | |
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| Alfred Farag's Photo Gallery | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Index | |
