Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution [Paperback]

The ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfolded in Egypt from the last days of Hosni Mubarak’s regime through Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s ascendance to the presidency, the plays present a picture of Egypt in the midst of epochal change, with all the attendant fear, hope, and uncertainty. Ranging from naturalism to documentary to more avant-garde representations, the plays collected inTahrir Talesrepresent contemporary Egyptian drama at its most interesting, and, not coincidentally, most politically, committed.

Mohammed Albakryis professor of English and applied linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University.Rebekah Maggoris assistant professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.

Acknowledgements
Translating Egyptian Drama for the Stage
                Mohammed Albakry
Introduction
                Rebekah Maggor
Disparity and Corruption
                They Say Dancing is a Sin
                                Hany Abdel Naser and Mohamed Abdel Mu’iz
                The Mirror
                                Yasmeen Eman (ShaghaflSã