ABSTRACT
During the opening years of the twentieth century, as the Arab world has taken on a new importance on the international geopolitical scene, increasing attention is being paid to the cultural products of that world, although, as is often the case, forms such as the novel or the cinema have received much more scholarly and popular attention than the theatre. Even rather well informed theatre specialists are often still unaware of any dramatic work from the Arab world, even that in the European-oriented modern tradition, which now dates back more than a century.
