Tahrir Tales

Plays from the Egyptian Revolution

Mohammed Albakry, Rebekah Maggor

978-08-57423-41-2

Seagull Books, Kolkata, 2016

Language: English

360 pages

6" x 7.5"

Price INR 950.00
Book Club Price INR 760.00
INR 950.00
In stock
SKU
LWB1099
The ten plays in this collection offer unprecedented grassroots perspectives on the jubilation, terror, hope, and heartbreak of mass uprising as seen during and in the wake of the Tahrir Square demonstrations. Collectively tracing events as they unfolded in Egypt from the last days of Hosni Mubarak’s regime through Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s ascendance to the presidency, the plays present a picture of Egypt in the midst of epochal change, with all the attendant fear, hope, and uncertainty. Ranging from naturalism to documentary to more avant-garde representations, the plays collected in Tahrir Tales represent contemporary Egyptian drama at its most interesting, and, not coincidentally, most politically committed.