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Khalid Amine & Jamal Akabli “The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow./ That must not be true of tomorrow.”[1] “The principle of the universe is movement… If it stops moving, it will return to non-existence.”  (Ibn ‘Arabi, The Book Unveiling the Effects of travels) It would be …

Stephen BARBER Dancing on the Hyphen: Essays on Arab Theatre presents an invaluable collection of Khalid Amine’s latest essays on the contemporary and recent performance cultures of North Africa. The collection is striking in its breadth and depth, spanning nuanced and original investigations extending from women’s empowerment through performance, Shakespeare’s …

Jamal Akabli Bitter Trees, a scenic composition by Abdelmajid El Haouasse, bears a living testimony to the Years of Lead, one of the darkest chapters in Moroccan history. While the years following the investiture of the new king Mohammed VI presaged a new era of reconciliation with past abuses of …

Tayeb Saddiki (1938- 2016) was a theatre director, actor, and playwright from Essaouira, a coastal city in southwest Morocco. In the course of his career as Morocco’s most respected theatre figure since independence, Saddiki has not only dominated the Moroccan stage, he has in fact reconciled Morocco’s traditional acting styles …

Amine: The international debates on the politics of intercultural theatre practices have not only critiqued such artistic ‘syncretism’ and negotiations, but articulated an optimistic belief in the achievability of a common “interweaving” across worldwide performance cultures.  Erika Fischer-Lichte is justly and internationally acclaimed as an exemplary demystifier – the thinker …

The Arab Journal of Performance Studies has just launched the second issue, referring to the period from January- June 2016. The issued is an Obituary dedicated to Tayeb Saddiki and the re-invention of tradition in contemporary Moroccan theatre, comprising trilingual papers by researchers from Morocco, France, Egypt, Iraq, and USA. …

Reviewed by Khalid Amine Terror and Performance is an incredibly well-researched book that ushers in vigorous intellectual stimulation, but also appeals emotionally to its implied readers. Bharucha’s intense and provocative configuration of terror is haunted by memories of his production of Genet’s The Maids in Manila at a theatre venue …