Artists, Writers and the Arab Spring

ISBN-13: 9783030026677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 175 str.

Riad Ismat

Opis

The book aims to explore the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring, which resulted in demands for change in the repressive and corrupted regimes. Eventually, it led to cracking down on the protests with excessive force, which caused tremendous human suffering, destruction, and also escalation of extreme insurgency. The author analyzes major literary and artistic works from Egypt, Syria and Tunisia, and their political context. This monograph will be helpful to scholars and students in the growing field of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and everyone who is interested in the politics of MENA.

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1 - INTRODUCTION 

PART I: THE PIONEERS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

2 - Naguib Mahfouz: Symbolism versus Realism

3 - Tawfiq al-Hakim: A Pyramid of Arabic Drama

4 - Nizar Qabbani: Jasmine Never Dies

5 - Ghada Samman: Mosaic of Memory 

6 - Youssef Chahine: Destiny

PART II: REBELLIOUS FICTION WRITERS

7 - Yusuf Idris and Zakaria Tamer 

8 - Khairy Alzahaby, Gamal el-Ghitani and Halim Barakat 

9 - Son’allah Ibrahim, Fawwaz Haddad and Nawal el-Saadawi

PART III: DRAMA OF REVOLT

10 - Modern Theatre in Tunisia

11 - Alfred Farag and Sa'dallah Wannous

12 - Mamdouh Adwan, Mahmoud Diyab and Naguib Surur

13 - Sa'd al-Din Wahba and Walid Ikhlasi 

14 – Salah Abdel Sabour and Rashad Rushdi,

15 - Muhammad al-Maghout and Ali Salem

INDEX

O autorze

Riad Ismat is Adjunct Professor of Radio, Television, and Film and a former Research Scholar at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of many creative and criticism books in Arabic, and served as Syria’s Minister of Culture.