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The Al-Hamlet Summit

Author Sulayman Al-Bassam

Format Paperback

Publisher University Of Hertfordshire Press

Category Plays

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Powerful and disturbing, this version of the Hamlet story is set in a modern Middle Eastern state whose leader has just died, to be replaced by his brother, a ruthless, Westernized dictator who juggles petro-dollars, arms dealers, and democratic slogans in an attempt to quell the rising tides of Islamic extremism. Presenting a composite of many Arab concerns that affect peoples from the Arabian Gulf to the Atlantic and beyond, it is a concrete and poetic formulation of an Arab viewpoint, combining aspects of the Arab oral-poetry tradition with the rhetoric of modern-day politics. It is Hamlet as pure, dangerous politics.

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Sulayman Al-Bassam

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Publisher: University Of Hertfordshire Press
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781902806624

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