Wafaa El Beih
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
James Sanua e la presenza degli italiani nell’Egitto dell’Ottocento
Articolo della rivista, Anno IV, Numeri 7-8, dicembre 2014
It was against the background of well-established European colonies and companies that theater developed in Egypt. Napoleon Bonaparte founded the first theater in the country in 1798, devoting it to representations for the French troops. Afterwards, however, Egyptian theatre mainly developed from an Italian model. James (Yaqub) Sanua (Ya‘qūb ibn [...]