"Chasing 'Empty Signifiers': Egyptian Theater Before & After the 'Arab Spring'"
- Starts: 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 22, 2013
- Ends: 5:30 pm on Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Hazem Azmy is Visiting Assistant Professor at the department of Drama and Theatre Criticism of Ain Shams University (Egypt) and the Co-Convener of the
Arabic Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. He is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally entitled
"Staging Egypt on the Global Stage: Egyptian
Performance Realties from 9/11 to the Arab Spring," to
be published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Azmy
will discuss three different Egyptian theatrical
productions, all by key figures of the “Free” Theatre
Movement that came into existence in the early 1990s.
Consisting of young talents with various levels of
training and artistic merit, it attempted to challenge the
existing patriarchal and gerontocratic cultural
machinery—as if prefiguring the January 25 revolution
almost two decades later.
- Speaker(s)
- Hazem Azmy
- Event Open To
- public
- Building
- 232 Bay State Rd
- Room
- 505
- Show Fees
- free
- Contact Organization
- African Studies Center
- Contact Name
- Joanne Hart
- Information Phone
- 617-353-3673
- Contact Email
- johart@bu.edu
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