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Beyond the Palace: Transnational Itineraries of the City in the Arabian Nights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Paulo Lemos Horta
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Had shahrazad lived today she might have been on the first boat of middle eastern refugees to europe, posits the theater director Mahmoud al-Hurani in his new play 1001 Titanics. First performed in September 2015 by the Arab Puppet Theatre at the Metro al Madina Theater in Beirut, the play toured in Lebanese refugee camps throughout the fall. In al-Hurani's play Shahrazad tells the tale of a skinny boy named Ahmad, a refugee driven by the fall of rockets from his quaint village to an unnamed Arab metropolis symbolized by the paper cutout of a skyline of high rises. The production relies on silhouette, puppetry, and mime to tell its story. In one climactic scene, two characters play cards over an upturned fan, and when a cutout of a missile drops to the stage their cards are blown into oblivion.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 487 - 495
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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