Tag: Egypt
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No Veils, No Headscarves – Reimagining the Middle Eastern Play with Kareem Fahmy and Sevan K. Greene
“I never felt like a person of color until I came to New York and started working in the theater. The theater, of all places, was where I first encountered racism in New York.” – Sevan K. Greene, in dialogue with Jerry Lieblich and Kareem Fahmy.
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Scenes from the Status Quo Ante: Performing the Egypt that Was, and Is, and Might Have Been
If the reader will permit me to pierce the critical veil, for one brief instance, I’d like to relate a conversation that took place between myself and a friend at […]
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The Battle is in the Images: Egypt, “The Square,” and the Diegesis of Competing Media
Culturebot contributor Hani Omar Khalil
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Theatrical Modeling and the Collective Hero: An Interview with Ibrahim El-Husseiny
On the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Hani Omar Khalil talks with playwright Ibrahim El-Husseiny about his evolution as a political artist and the role of theater in the shaping of national discourse
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“Sumeida’s Song”: New Egyptian Opera After The Revolution
Hani Omar Khalil writes about Mohamed Fairouz’s chamber opera “Sumeida’s Song”, that premiered last week at HERE Arts Center, in the context of post-revolution Egypt.
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An Essay on Ibrahim El-Husseini’s “Comedy of Sorrows”
Guest contributor Hani Omar Khalil explores Ibrahim El-Husseini’s “Comedy of Sorrows” (“Commedia Al-Ahzaan”), a theatrical response to the Egyptian Revolution