Scheherazade

Name: Scheherazade
Author: Tawfiq al-Hakim

by Tawfiq al-Hakim

Play reimagining the Arabian Nights framing device with contemporary philosophical themes

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Tawfiq al-Hakim

Egypt's most important playwright, who established modern Arabic drama as a serious literary form. His plays ranged from philosophical allegory to social satire and drew on both Egyptian mythology and Western modernism.

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