Browsing by Author "Selaiha, Nehad"

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Egypt Update from Nehad Selaiha
(MIT PRESS, 2014) Selaiha, Nehad
Peer Gynt by the Pyramids in Giza
(ROUTLEDGE, 2006) Selaiha, Nehad
This chapter traces the history of Ibsen's plays in Egypt, whether in the form of printed translations or performances. It shows that though the plays, which started to appear in Arabic since the 1950s, gradually gained in popularity among drama scholars and students of European drama and literature, they were rarely performed on the Egyptian stage, and suggests a number of reasons for this. The rest of the chapter is devoted to a discussion of the Ibsen productions in Egypt during the celebration of the centenary of his death, with special attention to the Norwegian/Egyptian Peer Gynt in Giza.
Women Playwrights in Egypt
(JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, 2010) Selaiha, Nehad; Enany, Sarah
The landscape of women playwrights in Egypt, like the theatrical landscape in general, is inextricably bound up with the country's historical and political background-specifically, that of the twentieth century, when theatre on the Western model first appeared and with it the concept of playwriting. This essay introduces the reader to these Egyptian female playwrights, dramaturges, and theatre-makers. Starting with the first-ever piece called a "play" and written by a woman, May Ziyada, in 1922, this comprehensive historical, chronological, and thematic overview continues through to the present day with such contemporary writer-directors as Abeer Ali and Effat Yehia, who came into their own in the 1990s and are still active today. It also places their work in context by providing a background of the social and political climate in which they produced, and still produce, their work, sometimes against great odds.