In a Sea of Pearls and Oil: Folk Heritage and Social Issues in the Qatari Arabic Play Umm il-zēn (1975) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mannāʿī

Articolo della rivista, Anno XIV, numero 27, giugno 2024
According to the main studies of the Qatari scholarly literature devoted to theatre (amongst others, Kāfūd 1982, 1988, 1998, 2008; Rašīd 1997, 2004, 2014, 2022), ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mannāʿī (1948) is accounted among the founders of Qatar’s theatre movement. His first work, Umm il-zēn, brought on stage in 1975 and written [...]