Laila Abou-Saif, Ph.D.
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"Creating A Theatre of the Poor at Wekalat al-Ghouri in Cairo", The Literary Review,London: June,l982.

This article traces the manifestations of comedy and drama in the Near East since ancient Egyptian times,through the sixties. An important source for researchers.
This article documents Rihani's rise from the comic cabaret skits of the early twenties to his full blown social comedy of the late forties.
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This article describes the critique of polygamy in the famous novel by Taha Hussein,the internationally known blind novelist of Egypt.
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Nonfiction/Middle East Politics
"The pages emit the heat, dust, and calls from Cairo's minarets, making the book a worthy acquistion."
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Middle East Journal: A Woman's Journey into the Heart of the Arab World
(Scribner, 1990)

"Complex relationships among Israel, Egypt, the Palestinians an the United States are explored with personal insight by Laila Abou-Saif, Ph.D. '69, an Egyptian by birth, in her recent book, Middle East Journal: A Woman's Journey into the Heart of the Arab World (Charles Scribners Sons, 1990). Abou-Saif enlisted the trust of a wide variety of Middle Easterners including Yassir Arafat, because she is one of them. She readily translates their thoughts and feelings for westerners in a way they can understand because she has lived and taught in America."
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