| Thus, he refused to call them plays and published them in separate books | His play formed the basis of a popular Egyptian film by the same name, starring |
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| The most memorable of these plays is Ughniyyat al-Mawt Death Song , a one-act play that with masterly economy depicts the fraught atmosphere in as a family awaits the return of the eldest son, a student in Cairo, for him to carry out a murder in response to the expectations of a blood feud | 2- Intellectual Theatre: This dramatic style produced plays to be read not acted |
When the National Theatre Troupe was formed in Egypt in 1935, the first production that it mounted was The People of the Cave.
17| The Dancer of the Temple, 1939 Short Stories• While this play may be somewhat lacking in subtlety, it clearly illustrates in the context of al-Hakim's development as a playwright the way in which he had developed his technique in order to broach topics of contemporary interest, not least through a closer linkage between the pacing of dialogue and actions on stage | |
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| Some of al-Hakim's frustrations with the performance aspect were diverted by an invitation in 1945 to write a series of short plays for publication in newspaper article form |
His wife died in 1977; his son died in 1978 in a.
| The 'soft hands' of the title refer to those of a prince of the former royal family who finds himself without a meaningful role in the new society, a position in which he is joined by a young academic who has just finished writing a doctoral thesis on the uses of the Arabic preposition hatta | Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality |
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| The articles portrayed Hitler as a demon whose victory would herald the end of human civilization, bringing instead a "return to barbarism | In 1960, al-Hakim was to provide further illustration of this development in technique with another play set in an earlier period of Egyptian history, Al Sultan Al-Ha'ir The Perplexed Sultan |
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