Greek Tragedy and the Middle East

List of Contributors
Preface

Introduction

Part I: Adaptations and Translations of Greek Tragedy in a Colonial Context: A Historical perspective
1. Tragic Ways, Tragic Voices: Translating Greek Tragedy in the Wake of the Nahda, Roberto Salazar (Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
2. Oedipus of Thebes on Arab Stages, Marvin Carlson (The City University of New York, USA)
3. From Ancient Greek Theatre to Turkish Theatre and Back: State of the Art, Erica Letailleur (Universite Cote d'Azur, France)

Part II: The Model as Diversion: A Tool to Tackle Political Issues on the Contemporary Stages
4. Brave Women in a Mad World: Euripides and the State of the Exception in Arab Theatre, Daniela Potenza (Universita degli Studi di Messina, Italy)
5. So Many Medeas! Medea in Iran and Lebanon Since 2015, Yassaman Khajehi (Clermont Auvergne University, France)
6. Antigone in Iran: Towards a Political Subject of Resistance, Rezvan Zandieh (University of Caen Normandie, France)
7. When Iraqi Theatre Met the World Again: Haythem Abderrazak and His Looking for Oresteia, Antonio Pacifico (Jean Moulin University of Lyon, France)

Part III: Greek Tragedy, A Shared Heritage?
8. Ambivalence of Interpretation Between Israel and France in Hanoch Levin's Theatre Tragic Materials, Emmanuelle Thiebot (Independent Scholar)
9. Sophocles' Antigone by French Director Adel Hakim (2011): Using Greek Tragedy to Pay Tribute to Palestinian Resistance, Astrid Chabrat-Kajdan (Universite Lyon 2, France)
10. Looking at Iraq from Afar: Two Oresteia on European Stages, Pauline Donizeau (University Lumiere-Lyon 2, France)
11. Tingitanos by Zoubeir Ben Bouchta: A Moroccan Tragedy, Omar Fertat (Universite Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

Notes
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Index

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• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• Estudos teatrais
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval

diaspora; classical; MENA region; Greek drama; ancient Greece; Arabic; Persian; Turkish; postcolonial; theatrical adaptation; stage; classics; Euripides; Aeschylus; Sophocles; North Africa; theatre; classical reception; tragedy