Theater in the Middle East

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Theater in the Middle East is written by Babak Rahimi and published by Anthem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785274473 (ISBN 10) and 9781785274473 (ISBN 13).

The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theatrical practices across a region, by and large, ignored for the history of its dramatic traditions and cultures, and it does so by emphasizing diverse performances in changing contexts. Topics include Arab, Iranian, Israeli, diasporic theatres from pedagogical perspectives to reinvention of traditions, from translation practices to political resistance expressed in various performances from the nineteenth century to the present.