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IFTR's Arabic Theatre Working Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2010

KHALID AMINE ,
HAZEM AZMY  and
MARVIN CARLSON
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Abstract

This collaborative article looks at the establishment in 2006 of an IFTR/FIRT working group in Arabic theatre, and the significance of this in terms of breaking the twentieth-century, hegemonic hold of European and North American subjects in theatre research. We trace the development of the working group from preliminary conferences and gatherings outside IFTR to its set-up and organization within the Federation. Surveying our methodologies, key issues, research areas and future directions, we argue the significance of the group's work in creating a research forum for Arab theatre scholarship.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , October 2010 , pp. 263 - 274
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2010

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6 In May 2005, as an informal follow-up to this enthusiasm, a Yahoo! listserve called AITheatre was set up by Hazem Azmy; see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aitheatre

7 See the ATWG Schedule at http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/20592726/1328452800/name/ATWG+Schedule+IFTR+2009+-+Revised+Version+July+2009.pdf>. Also, for a list of Arabo-Islamic papers in the main conference visit http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/20592726/409708625/name/Arabo-Islamic+Presentations+in+Main+Conference+-+IFTR+09+REVISED.pdf>).

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9 See Nehad Selaiha ‘Back on the Silk Road’, Al-Ahram Weekly, 28 October 2004, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/714/cu1.htm

10 See Litvin's blog on the topic at http://arabshakespeare.blogspot.com/. Also see the special issue of Critical Survey devoted to Arab Shakespeare and guest-edited by Litvin (19, 3, Winter 2007).

11 Margaret Litvin, ‘Arab Theatre in the New World Market’, The Experimental (daily of CIFET 2008), 13 October 2008, p. 1.

12 This approach is best exemplified in Amine and Carlson's current book project entitled Theatre in North Africa: The Performative Turn in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, to appear in the Palgrave series Studies in International Performance edited by J. Reinelt and B. Singleton.

13 For a table of the contents of this issue see www.ecumenicaljoural.or/page2.plip

14 Amine, Khalid and Carlson, Marvin, ‘Al-halqa in Arabic Theatre: An Emerging Site of Hybridity’, Theatre Journal, 60, 1 (March 2008), pp. 71–87CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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16 Published in McKenzie, Jon, Roms, Heike and Wee, C. J. W.-L., eds., Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 191–206CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

17 Details available at the symposium's website at http://symposium.egyptartsacademy.com