8 - 14 October 1998
Issue No.398
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 8 - 14 October 1998 Issue No.398 |
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Plain talk By Mursi Saad El-Din
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A century's judgement Tawfiq Al-Hakim, the centenary of whose birth is being celebrated this week, is a member of that conglomeration of distinguished Egyptian writers and intellectuals whose talents blossomed during the 1920s and 1930's and whose names are synonymous with what is now called the age of liberal Arabic thought or the modern Arab enlightenment. --read on-- |
Changing theatrical direction
By Tawfiq Al-Hakim |
An epigraph and much effort
By Taha Hussein |
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Playing with narrative style
By Naguib Mahfouz |
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Creative antagonisms
Mursi Saad El-Din reviews The Tavern of Life and Other Stories, Tawfiq Al-Hakim, translated by William Maynard Hutchins. Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1998 |