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Pre-1952 Egyptian Drama, Popular Theater, and Cultures of Performance (2023)
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Raphael Cormack. (2023). Pre-1952 Egyptian Drama, Popular Theater, and Cultures of Performance. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature

There is a linear way to tell story of Egyptian performance history up to 1952: the country had not known theater in any serious way before the 1870s. As European culture entered Egypt, along with European power and capital, Egyptians created their o... Read More about Pre-1952 Egyptian Drama, Popular Theater, and Cultures of Performance.

The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East (2023)
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Auji, H., Cormack, R., & Mahmoud, A. (Eds.). (2023). The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East. Bloomsbury

What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popula... Read More about The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East.

Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Cairo's Roaring 20s (2021)
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Cormack, R. (2021). Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Cairo's Roaring 20s. New York: W.W. Norton; London: Saqi Books

1920s Cairo: a counterculture was on the rise. A passionate group of artists captivated Egyptian society in the city’s bars, hash dens and music halls – and the most dazzling and assertive were women.

Midnight in Cairo tells the thrilling story of... Read More about Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Cairo's Roaring 20s.

Cultures of Diversity: George Abyad's 1912 Oedipus Rex (2020)
Book Chapter
Cormack, R. (2020). Cultures of Diversity: George Abyad's 1912 Oedipus Rex. In A. Gorman, & S. Irving (Eds.), Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought and Literature. I. B. Tauris

The Mirror of the West: Arab American Literature in Early Twentieth-Century New York City (2020)
Book Chapter
Cormack, R. (2020). The Mirror of the West: Arab American Literature in Early Twentieth-Century New York City. In R. Wilson (Ed.), New York: A Literary History (46-60). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108557139.004

This article attempts to outline the ways in which Chinese and Chinese American writers envision metropolitan New York by examining selected prose works which primarily engage with immigrant experiences. While recognizing the creative agency and imag... Read More about The Mirror of the West: Arab American Literature in Early Twentieth-Century New York City.

Lords or Idols?: Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century Egypt (2019)
Book Chapter
Raphael Cormack. (2019). Lords or Idols?: Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century Egypt. In M. Booth (Ed.), Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (211-235). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474439015-011

In 2015, Dr Sayyid ʿAli Ismaʿil published a new edition of the text of a long-lost Arabic translation of Offenbach’s (1818–80) opera La Belle Hélène. His subtitle described it as ‘the first play published in Arabic in Egypt, in 1868’. He added, in th... Read More about Lords or Idols?: Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century Egypt.

Full of noises: when "World Shakespeare" met the "Arab Spring" (2015)
Journal Article
Litvin, M., Walkling, S., & Cormack, R. (2016). Full of noises: when "World Shakespeare" met the "Arab Spring". Shakespeare, 12(3), 300-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2015.1066842

In summer 2012, to coincide with the Olympic Games, the United Kingdom celebrated a summer of Shakespeare. Troupes from around the world were invited to produce their own versions of plays from the playwright's corpus. 2012 was also a very eventful y... Read More about Full of noises: when "World Shakespeare" met the "Arab Spring".