Shakespeare and the Arab World

Katherine Hennessey is Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. Her scholarship focuses on the performing arts in the Arabian Gulf, Yemen, and Ireland. She is the author of Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula (Palgrave 2018) and director of the short documentary Shakespeare in Yemen, which was screened in June 2018 at the Signature Theatre in New York City and at the 2018 MESA FilmFest. She is the recipient of a year-long NEH Fellowship for her next book project, entitled Theatre on the Arabian Peninsula (Routledge 2020).

• Introduction
Katherine Hennessey and Margaret LitvinPART I: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND TRANSLATION STRATEGIESChapter 1. Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet Tradition
Margaret Litvin
Chapter 2. Decommercialising Shakespeare: Mutran's Translation of OthelloSameh F. Hanna
Chapter 3. On Translating Shakespeare’s Sonnets into ArabicMohamed EnaniChapter 4. The Quest for the Sonnet: The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic PoetryKamal Abu-DeebChapter 5. Egypt between Two Shakespeare Quadricentennials 1964–2016: Reflective Remarks in Three SnapshotsHazem AzmyPART II: ADAPTATION AND PERFORMANCEChapter 6. The Taming of the Tigress: Faṭima Rushdī and the First Performance of Shrew in ArabicDavid C. MoberlyChapter 7. The Tunisian Stage: Shakespeare’s Part in QuestionRafik DarragiChapter 8. Beyond Colonial Tropes: Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in PalestineSamer al-SaberChapter 9. Bringing Lebanon’s Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alameddine’s Appropriation of Shakespeare’s TragediesYousef AwadChapter 10. An Arabian Night with Swedish Direction: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Egypt and Sweden, 2003Robert LyonsChapter 11. 'Rudely Interrupted': Shakespeare and TerrorismGraham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey
Chapter 12. Othello in Oman: Aḥmad al-Izkī’s Fusion of Shakespeare and Classical Arab EpicKatherine HennesseyChapter 13. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Kamāl’s Dahsha: An Upper Egyptian LearNoha Mohamad Mohamad IbraheemChapter 14. Ophelia Is Not Dead at 47: An Interview with Nabyl LahlouKhalid Amine