WG Arabic Theatre

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25 & Day 2 / Monday, July 26

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 1209}

Convener: Marvin Carlson (City University of New York, USA)

• Hazem Azmy (University of Warwick, UK):
  On the Founding Paradox of Egyptian Modernity: A Theatrical Intervention
• Iman Ismail (Ain Shams University, Egypt):
  From Myth to Modernity. Ali Salem's The Comedy of Oedipus. A Deconstructive Approach
• Sameh Mahran (Academy of Arts, Egypt):
  The Confessions of a Modernising Theatre Practitioner in Contemporary Egypt
• Mustafa Riad (Ain Shams University, Egypt):
  From Folklore to Theatre. Brecht and Farj'a Schizoanalysis of Master and Followers
• Kai Tuchmann (Goethe Institute, Middle East and North Africa):
  Hybridity and Theatre Studies
• Shams Eldin Younis Nagmeldin (Sudan University, Sudan):
  Modernity in Sudanese Theatre
• Mohammad Jafar Yousefian (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran):
  Ta'ziye and Transformance: A Critical Reading of Performance Theory
• Rana Kazkaz (Independent Artist, Syria):
  How Film and Media, Lighting and Sound Technologies entered the Stage and Fueled Debates on "The True Essence of Theatre"

_{Please contact your convener for programme details.}