		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 22 - 28 October 1998 Issue No.400
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Naguib Surur

-Born June 1932.
-Graduated from the Institute of Acting in 1956.
-Left Egypt in 1958 on a state mission to Russia to obtain a Ph.D. in drama and returned in 1964.
-His directorial debut upon return was Chekov's Cherry Orchard, Pocket Theatre, 1964.
-Played the role of Agamemnon in Karam Metawi's directorial debut of Aeschylus' Agamemnon in 1966.
-Taught at the Academy of Theatrical Arts until the mid-1970s when he began to suffer from recurring bouts of severe depression.
-Died on 24 October 1978.

WORKS

Plays
-Shagarat Al-Zaytoun (Olive Tree), 1958
-Yassin wa Bahia (Yassin and Bahia), 1965
-Ah Ya Layl Ya Amar (Oh Night, Oh Moon), 1966
-Ya Bahia wa Khabirini (Tell me, Bahia), 1967
-Allo Ya Masr (Hello Egypt), 1968
-Miramar, 1968
-Al-Kalimat Al-Mutaqat'a (The Crossword Puzzle), 1969
-Al-Biraq Al-Abyad (The White Banner), 1969
-Al-Hukm qabl Al-Mudawla (Sentence Before Deliberations), 1970
-Al-Zubab Al-Azraq (Blue Flies), 1971
-Malik Al-Shahatin (King of Beggars), adaptation of Brecht's Three Penny Opera, 1971
-Ulu li Ain Al-Shams (Tell the Eye of the Sun), 1973
-Menein Agib Nas (Where Do I Go to Find People), 1974
-Al-Nigma Umm Dayl (The Comet), 1974
-Afkar Gunouniya fi Daftar Hamlet (Mad Thoughts in Hamlet's Notepad), 1977

Poetry
-Al-Trajidya Al-Insaniya (The Human Tragedy)
-Luzoum ma Yalzum (The Necessity of What is Necessary), 1964
-Al-Umiyyat, 1969-74
-Brotokolat Hukama' Riche (The Protocols of the Elderly of Café Riche), 1974
-Ruba'iyat (Quatrains), 1974
-Al-Toufan Al-Thani (The Second Deluge), 1977
-Faris Akhir Zaman (Knight of our Age), 1977

Criticism
-Rihla fi Thulathiyat Naguib Mahfouz (A Journey into Naguib Mahfouz's Trilogy), 1960
- Hiwar fil-Masrah ( A Dialogue about Theatre), 1969
-Humoum fil-Adab wal-Fann (On Literature and Art), 1971
-Taht Aba'it Abil-Alaa' (Under the Mantle of Abu Alaa),
-Hakadha Qala Goha (Thus Spake Goha), 1978
-Uncollected literary articles in numerous literary publication in Egypt and the Arab world

For more information consult Naguib Surur's Website:
www.wadada.net/surur/