Shakespeare and the Arab World

Katherine Hennessey is currently a Moore Institute Visiting Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2009 to 2014 she lived in Sana'a, researching the history of Yemeni theatre, after which she held a Global Shakespeare research fellowship at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (New York: Palgrave, 2017). Starting January 2017, she will be an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait.Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and founding director of Middle East and North Africa Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost (Princeton, 2011) and articles and reviews in Performing Arts Journal, Journal of Arabic Literature, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Theatre Research International, Arab Stages and several Shakespeare journals. Her current research explores the literary legacies of Arab-Russian and Arab-Soviet cultural ties.

• IntroductionKatherine Hennessey and Margaret LitvinChapter 1. The Taming of the Tigress: Fatima Rushdi and the First Performance of Shrew in ArabicDavid C. MoberlyChapter 2. Beyone Colonial Tropes: Two Productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream in PalestineSamer Al-SaberChapter 3. Othello in Oman: Ahmad al-Izki's Fusion of Shakespeare and Classical Arab EpicKatherine HennesseyChapter 4. 'Abd al-Rahim Kamal's Dahsha: An Upper Egyptian LearNoha Mohamad Mohamad IbraheemChapter 5. Bringing Lebanon's Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alemeddine's Appropriation of Shakespeare's TragediesYousef AwadChapter 6. Egypt between Two Shakespeare Quadricentennials 1964-2016: Reflective Remarks in Three SnapshotsHazem AzmyChapter 7. On Translating Shakespeare's Sonnets into ArabicMohamed EnaniChapter 8. The Quest for the Sonnet: The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic PoetryKamal Abu-DeebChapter 9. Ophelia Is Not Dead at 47: An Interview with Nabyl LahlouKhalid AmineChapter 10. An Arabian Night with Swedish Direction: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Egypt and Sweden, 2003Robert LyonsChapter 11. Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet TraditionMargaret LitvinChapter 12. Decommercialising Shakespeare: Mutran's Translation of OthelloSameh F. HannaChapter 13. The Tunisian Stage: Shakespeare's Part in QuestionRafik DarragiChapter 14. 'Rudely Interrupted': Shakespeare and TerrorismGraham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey