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"""Tackling such topics as consent, psychological trauma, patriarchal attitudes, and the repercussions of speaking out, five sharply honed, open-ended 10-minute plays . . . . transcending easy labels like 'theatre for social action' and 'theatre in education, ' they exist in a category of their own.""-Critical Stages/Scèegrave;egrave;nes critiques ""This book is a brilliant engagement with the issue of gender-based violence in the private sphere, one of the most difficult challenges that societies all over the world contend with.""-Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University, and co-founder and Chair of the Board of the Women and Memory Forum, from the foreword"

"""Tackling such topics as consent, psychological trauma, patriarchal attitudes, and the repercussions of speaking out, five sharply honed, open-ended 10-minute plays . . . . transcending easy labels like 'theatre for social action' and 'theatre in education, ' they exist in a category of their own.""-Critical Stages/Scèegrave;nes critiques ""This book is a brilliant engagement with the issue of gender-based violence in the private sphere, one of the most difficult challenges that societies all over the world contend with.""--Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University, and co-founder and Chair of the Board of the Women and Memory Forum, from the foreword"

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Jillian Campana (Author) is professor of theater at The American University in Cairo, where she also serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her most recent book is Western Theatre in Global Contexts: Directing and Teaching Culturally Inclusive Drama around the World. She lives in Cairo. Dina Amin (Author, Translated by) is director of the theater program and associate professor of theater at The American University in Cairo. She is the author of Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theater. Her most recent theater production is Shababik ‘Attia (‘Attia’s Windows). She lives in Cairo. Hoda Elsadda (Foreword by) is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University. She is co-founder and currently chair of the board of the Women and Memory Forum, a research organization that focuses on the production and dissemination of alternative knowledges on women and gender studies.

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