Khalid AMINE

Full Name: Khalid AMINE
Place and Date of Birth: Born in Tetouan, Morocco, 1966
Previous Position: Since 1992, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters and Humanities at
Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco
Present Position: Since 2004, Senior Professor, Faculty of Letters and Humanities at
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco
Professional Address: English Department, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Abdelmalek
Essaâdi University, Tetouan, B.P. 210, Morocco
Home Address: Rue Bir Anzaran, Residence Andalus, Apt 11, Tangier 90 010, Morocco
Home Telephone/Fax: (212) 539330466. Mobile: (212) 664596791
Email Addresses: Khamine55@gmail.com/K.amine@uac.ma and Khalid.amine@fuberlin.de
Web: www.furja.ma
EDUCATION
February 2000, Doctorat D’etat degree (Ph.D.) (with distinction) at Abdelmalek Essaâdi
University in Comparative Literature. Dissertation project entitled “The Representation of
Shakespeare in Moroccan Drama/Theatre: A Comparative Study”.
July 1993, Master of Arts in Literature-Drama, School of Comparative Literature at The
University of Essex, UK. MA. Dissertation entitled “Human Reality in J. Paul Sartre’s Drama:
A Study of The Concept of Freedom and Situation”, supervised by Profs. Roger HOWARD
& John COMMBES
May 1991, BA in English Literature, Faculty of Letters at Tetouan. BA. Monograph entitled
“Existential Study of Samuel Beckett’s Drama”.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019-2021, literary advisor of the national theatre, Saudi Arabia.

Since 2015, editor of The Arab Journal of Performance Studies (AJPS), a double-blind peerreviewed research journal (published jointly by the Research Group of Performance
Studies at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University & ICPS, Tangier).
Since 2004, Senior Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at the
English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (AEU),
Tetouan, Morocco.
Friedrich Hölderlin Guest Professor at Goethe-University, Frankfurt/M., Germany
(2017/18).
Since 2013, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New England, Tangier Campus.
2008-2010, Research Fellow at the International Institute “Interweaving Performance
Cultures” at the Free University, Berlin, Germany & member of the Institute’s Advisory
Board (2010- 2020).
Since 2007, Founding President of the International Research Centre for Performance
Studies (ICPS), Tangier.
Since 2004, Founding Director of the International Festival Performing Tangier.
(2006, 2007, and 2008): Director of Tangier’s Professional Theatre Festival.
2000- 2006, visiting Professor at the Faculty of Letters Fes Dhar L-mehras (Post-Graduate
Program of Theatre Studies, Dept. of Arabic).
1999-2004, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at the
English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan
(AEU), Morocco.
1996-2000, Faculty co-ordinator and Lecturer for the Tracking Cultures Program in
conjunction with the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas and Moulay Ismail
University, Meknes, Morocco.
January-May 1997, Faculty Associate and Staff Member at the Centre for Middle Eastern
Studies, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
1992-1998, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters and Humanities at Moulay Ismail
University, Meknes, Morocco.
Teaching experience
Course Title:

Al-halqa Theatre and Social Change. (Master Program at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am
Main Antrag im Programm „Förderung ausländischer Gastdozenten zu Lehrtätigkeiten an
deutschen Hochschulen“, 2017/18).
Alternative Dramaturgies in Post Arab Spring Countries. (Master Program at GoetheUniversität Frankfurt am Main Antrag im Programm „Förderung ausländischer
Gastdozenten zu Lehrtätigkeiten an deutschen Hochschulen“, 2017/18).
Shakespeare & the Arab World. (Master Program at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am
Main Antrag im Programm „Förderung ausländischer Gastdozenten zu Lehrtätigkeiten an
deutschen Hochschulen“, 2017/18).
Classical Drama. Upper-level undergraduate course. Taught regularly at AEU. Fall 2010-9.
Modern Critical Theory. Taught regularly at AEU. Graduate English Seminar. Spring 2010-
9.
Society and Culture in Morocco (Social and Global Awareness course). New upper-level
undergraduate course at the University of New England, Tangier Campus, 2014- 2019.
Moroccan Theatre and Social Change (Social and Global Awareness course). New upperlevel undergraduate course at the University of New England, Tangier Campus, 2014,
2015.
African Literature. Upper-level undergraduate course. 1992- 2013.
Moderna Drama. Upper-level undergraduate course. 1998- 2012.
Critical Practice. Upper-level undergraduate course at AEU. 1998- 2014.
Performance Studies. Master Program at AEU (2005- 2008).
Introduction to Literature. Upper-level undergraduate course. 1992- 2010.
Advanced Literary Studies. Upper-level undergraduate course. 1992- 2010.
Honors, Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
April 2018: Citation for Contributions, Egyptian Academy of Arts.
December 2018: Citation for Contributions, Cartage Theatre Days Festival.
Tangier International University Theatre Festival 2018 dedicated in homage.

Winner of the 2012 research excellence award in the Humanities of Abdelmalek Essaâdi
University, Morocco.
2009/10 & 2014/15 the Interweaving Performance Cultures Research Grant as a Senior
Fellow at the Free University of Berlin.
2007 Helsinki Prize of the International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT).
August 2006-October 2006, Fulbright Post-doc-Research at CUNY, USA.
July 1998, the British Council’s Library Attachment (Sites: University of London, School of
African and Oriental Studies).
January- May 1997, Visiting Fellowship Award, Granted by the Centre for Middle Eastern
Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
July-October 1997, the British Council’s Library Attachment Award (Sites: Essex University,
SOAS, Bereckwek College).
June-July 1996, the British Council’s Library Attachment Award For Moroccan Scholars
(Sites: University of Essex and The School of Oriental & African Studies).
Memberships, Academic Activities, and other
Member of the Executive Committee of IFTR (2011-15-19).
Head of Jury at the Arab Theatre Festival, Sharjah 2014.
Since July 2007, one of the founding Members of the Arabic Working Group, International
Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT).
Since Jan 2007, member of the Editorial Committee of Contemporary Theatre Review: An
International Journal published by Routledge.
Since 2015, member of the Editorial Committee of Francosphère, published by Liverpool
University Press.
2003-2008, member of the Executive Committee of the Union of Professional Theatre in
Morocco.
Head of Moroccan Delegation at the 31st UNESCO-ITI World Congress, Manila,
Philippines, May 2006.
Since 2004, Convener of the International Conference and signature Event in the city of
Tangier: “Performing Tangier”, co-organized by the International Center for Performance
Studies and Abdelmalek Essaâdi University and other partners.
Co-convener of the International Conference: “The Comic Condition as a Play with
Incongruities/ Cultural Varieties in Arabic and Western Theatre”, organized by the
University of Amsterdam and Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, April 28-30, 2005.
Convener of “Writing Tangier: An International Conference, organized by Abdelmalek
Essadi University and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, and the Embassy of USA
in Rabat, Public Affairs Section, November 26-8, 2004.
July 2003, member of the Jury at the National Festival of Moroccan Theatre in Meknes.
Since 2000, member of the Union of Moroccan Writers.
2000- 2008, Regional Secretary of the Union of Theatre Professionals (Tangier-Tetouan).
2000- 1, member of the American Anthropological Association and the American
Ethnological Society (AAA & AES).
1998-2000, member of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
1998- 2000, member of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) (membership
number: 10673).
Since 1998, founding Coordinator of the Drama Research Group at the Faculty of
Humanities, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan.
In 1994, founding member of The Drama Research Group at the Faculty of Letters and
Humanities, Meknes.
2002-4, member of the National Subsidy Commission for Professional Theatre (Ministry
of Culture of Morocco).
March 17-26, 1994: Member of the Jury of the Second Festival of University Theatre,
University Moulay Ismail, Meknes 1994.
Books
Dancing on the Hyphen: Essays on Arab Theatre. ICPS, 2019.
Erika Fischer Lichte, From Intercultural Theatre to the Interweaving of Performance
Cultures (Arabic Translation). ICPS, 2016.
Theatre and Performance Studies (Arabic). ICPS, 2011.
Fields of Silence in Moroccan Theatre (Book in Arabic). Union of Moroccan Writers, 2004.
Moroccan Theatre between East and West. Faculty of Letters Publications, Abdelmalek
Essaâdi University, 2000.
Drama and the Myth of Origin: A critique of Eurocentric Tradition (Arabic). Faculty of
Letters Publications, University Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tétouan, 2002.
Beyond Brecht. Sindy Publications, 1996.
Edited & Co-authored Books
Co-author with Mohamed Sef, Postdramatic Theatre within Arabo-Islamic Contexts.
Baghdad: 2019.
Co-editor of The Narrative Turn in Theatre. ICPS, 2016.
Co-editor of Memory and Theatre: Performing the Archive. Abdelmalek Essaâdi
University Publications, 2015.
Co-editor, Alternative Dramaturgies. Collaborative Media International, 2015.
Guest Editor, Teatro Del Mundo Arabe, Investigacion Theatral: Revista de artes escénicas
performatividad, Vol. 4/ N° 6 Verano 2014 (Universidad Veracruzana, Belisario, México.
Co-editor, Intermediality, Performance and the Public Sphere. Collaborative Media
International, 2014.
Co-author with Mohamed Sif, Dramaturjiya al-‘amal al-masraḥiy Wal’mutafarij. ICPS
Publications, 2014.
Editor of The Art of Dialogue: East-West. ICPS Publications, 2014.
Co-editor, Performing Transformations. Collaborative Media International, 2013.
Co-author with Distinguished Professor Marvin Carlson, The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria
and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb. Palgrave, 2012.
Co-author with Distinguished Professor Hassan Elmniai, Al-masraḥ wa-rihānāturu. ICPS
Publications, 2012.
Co-author, Postdramatic Theatre: Four Perspectives (Arabic). ICPS, 2012.
Co-editor of Interweaving Performance Cultures/Critiquing Postcolonialism. Abdelmalek
Essaâdi University Publications, 2010.
Co-editor of Tangier at the Crossroads. International Center for Performance Studies
Publications.
Co-editor of Performing Tangier, Conference Proceedings. Abdelmalek Essaâdi University,
2007.
Co-editor of Writing Tangier. Altopress, 2005/ re-published by Peter Lang in 2009.
Editor of The Improvised Play in Morocco (Book in Arabic, 150 Pages). Abdelmalek Essaâdi
University Publications, 2003.
Editor of Between Theatre and Anthropology (Book in Arabic, 167 Pages). Abdelmalek
Essaâdi University Publications, 2002.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Theatre Festivals in Post-Arab Spring Countries”, The Cambridge Companion to
International Theatre Festivals, ed. Ric Knowels, 2020.
“The Re-Invention of Tradition in Moroccan Theater: From Postcolonial Hybridity to
Women’s Empowerment”, in Performing the Middle East, ed. Babak Rahimi. Anthem
Press, 2020.
“Decolonizing Theatre History in the Postcolony: (The case of the Maghreb)”, in
Bloomsbury Companion to Theatre History and Historiography,
edited by Claire Cochrane and Jo Robinson, 2019.
“After the ‘Years of Lead’ in Morocco: Performing the Memory”, in New Theatre Quarterly
V. xxxii, May 2016. Pp. 121- 141.
“Contentious Dramaturgies in the Countries of the Arab Spring”, in Horizons/Théȃtre, N°
6, Univ. Bordeaux Montaigne, 2016.
“Shakespeare’s Tragedies in North Africa and the Arab World”, in Oxford Handbook of
Shakespearean Tragedy, edited by Michael Neil & David Schalkwyk. Oxford University
Press, 2016.
“Ophelia is Not Dead at 47”, in Critical Survey, Vol. 28, N° 3, 2016.

“Nabyl Lahlou’s Ophelia is not Dead” (English translation), in Four Arab Hamlet Plays, eds.
Marvin Carlson & Margaret Litvin with Joy Arab. Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2015.
“Postcolonial Modernity: Theatre in Morocco and the Interweaving Loop” in the edited
volume The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures. Beyond Postcolonialism, edited
by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain. Routledge, 2014.
“Re-enacting Revolution and the New Public Sphere in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco”, in
Theatre Research International, Volume 38 Issue 2. Cambridge University Press, July 2013.
Pp. 87-103.
“Performance research in North Africa: Interplay between Appropriation and
Contestation”, in Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre1: Diaspora
Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures, (eds.) Kene Igweonu and Osita
Okagbue. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Pp. 80-105.
“IFTR’s Arabic Theatre Working Group”, jointly published by khalid Amine, Hazem Azmy
and Marvin Carlson, Theatre Research International. vol. 35, no. 3, 2010. Pp. 263–274.
“Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity”, in the
edited volume Contesting Performance: Global Sites of Research, published by Palgrave
in 2010.
“Taswir –Zwischen Ost und West”, in Taswir: Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne. Nicolai,
2009. Pp.20-26.
“The Interplay of Sameness and Difference in Arabic Performance Cultures”, a public
lecture presented at the Free University of Berlin, Germany (December 10, 2008), and the
University of London in Paris, France (February 10, 2009); Published in
Theatre Research International · vol. 35 | no. 3 | pp. 263–274.
“Al-halqa in Arabic Theatre: An Emerging Site of Hybridity”, jointly published by Khalid
Amine and Marvin Carlson, Theatre Journal – Volume 60, Number 1, March 2008.
“Moroccan Shakespeare and the Celebration of Impasse: Nabil Lahlou’s Ophelia is not
Dead”, Critical Survey, Volume 19, Number 3 Winter 2007, pp. 55-73.
“Performing Gender on the Moroccan Tremulous Body”, TDR (the Drama Review) (T96),
winter 2007 (NYU and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
“Theatre in the Arab World: A Difficult Birth”, Theatre Research International. Vol. 31/ n°
2/ 2006: pp. 145-162.
“Theatre between Theory and Practice”, Arrāfid (U. A. E., November 2005) pp.120-137.
“Performing Comicality in Moroccan Theatre”, Documenta (Jaargang XXIII, 2005, Number
3), special Issue “The Performance of the Comic in Arabic Theatre, co-edited by Mieke Kolk
and Freddy Decreus.
“Paul Bowles Tangier: An Ambiguous Compromise”, Journal of Middle Eastern and North
African Intellectual and Cultural Studies (Special Issue “Writing tangier” (Binghamton,
New York: Volume 3, Issue 1 Spring 2005) pp. 59-75, & again by Peter Lang Publishing,
2009.
“Performing Hybridity in Moroccan Theatre”, Awān (Bahrain: University of Bahrain,
Number 6, 2004) pp. 192- 201.
“Marokkaans theatre tussen oost en west” (Interview by Erwin Jans and Nezha Haffou)
etcetera (Bussel: June 2004).
« Crossing Borders: Al-halqa Performance in Morocco from the Open Space to the Theatre
Building », published in the international Journal of Performance Studies TDR, the Drama
Review, Vol 45/ Issue 2, summer 2001.
« Theatrical Hybridity and Oral Artistic Expression in Morocco », a paper published at
OFFSHOOT: A Journal of Translation and Comparative Studies, Volume I, Number 1, 1998.
« On Western Representations of Arab (Pre) Theatrical Forms », (published at Al-Quds AlArabi. V. 7, Issue. 2384, January 6-7, 1997 and January 8, 1997).
« Historicity in Heiner Muller’s Dramaturgy », (published in Al-Quds Al- Arabi, 1996).
« The Mirror of Topsy Turvidom in Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe », (published at AlāmātRevue Culturelle, N.6, 1996).
« Consonant Discursive Practices In Caryl Churchill’s Drama », (a paper given in The
International Conference “Woman and Writing” on March 17-18, 1995, at the Faculty of
Letters and Humanities, Meknes- also published among the proceedings of the
Conference “Woman and Writing”, Faculty of Letters Publication Series, 1996.
« The Reification of Art in Edward Bond’s The Fool », (published in Kitabat Mouacira: Art
and Sciences, N.25, September- October 1995).
« Strategies of Theatrical Discourse » (my translation of Patrice Pavis, Voix et Images de la
Scene: Vers Une Semiologie de la Reception. Published in Alamāt, Revue Culturelle, N.3,
1995).
« Theatre of Criticism Vs Epic Theater », (Published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi, V.5, Issue 1446, and
January 12, 1994. The second part is published in Issue 1447, January 13, 1994).
Republished in Kitābȃt Muācira: Arts and Sciences, issue 27, 1995.
« From Epic Dramaturgy to Dialectical Dramaturgy », (published in Maknāsat, N.7, Faculty
of Letters and Humanities at Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, 1993).
Invited Keynote Presentations, Lectures, and Conference Papers
“Shakespeare in the Arab World”, presented at the University of New England’s Center for
Global Humanities, Biddeford & Portland, 9-10 Oct. 2019.
“Decolonizing Theatre History in the Arab World (The case of the Maghreb)”, presented at
the Closing conference “Interweaving Performance Cultures” DYNAMICS OF
INTERWEAVING PERFORMANCE CULTURES”, Berlin 21-24 June 2018.
“Double Critique and the Burden of Re-Writing Theatre History in the Postcolony
(The case of the Maghreb)”, presented at ‘Translocating Theatre Histories’, a symposium
organized by the Reinhart Koselleck project ‘Global Theatre Histories’, LMU Munich 19-21
August, 2016.
“Theatre in the Postcolony and the Burden of Double Critique (The case of the Maghreb)”,
a keynote paper presented at ‘European Theatre Perspectives: Exploring channels for
cross-cultural engagement in performance’, a symposium co-organized by Culture Hub
(London, UK) and the Grotowski Institute (Wrocław, Poland), within the European Capital
of Culture programme 2016.
“Performing the Memory of the ‘Years of Lead’ in Morocco”, a paper presented at the
Performing Tangier International Conference – May 2015.
“Tangier and Site-Specificity: An Exploration of Cultural Memory and Contemporary
Creativity”, a paper presented at «Là où l’Afrique et l’Europe se rencontre: focus sur
Tanger », a, international conference organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in
Tangier, October 1- 4, 2015.
“The International Impact of the Interweaving Project”, a paper presented at BMBF
conference “Cutting-edge research in the Social Sciences and Humanities – Aims, paths
and impacts of the Käte Hamburger Centers” in Berlin/26.06.2015.
“The Remediation of ‘Arab Spring’ in Performance”, presented at IFTR annual conference,
Barcelona, Spain, 22-26 July 2013.
“Performing the Hyphen: Exile and the Need to Reconcile Borderlines”, a keynote paper
presented at the International Symposium ‘European Perspectives on Postmigrant
Theatre’, organized by The International Institute ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’,
Berlin, October 8, 2013.
“Postcolonial Fatigue”, a paper presented at the Interdisciplinary panel on
“Postcolonialism: What next?” held at the Freie Universität Berlin & coordinated by the
Dahlem Humanities Center, Germany, November 22-23, 2010.
« Postcolonial Modernity: Theatre in Morocco and the Re-Invention of Tradition », a
Keynote Speech presented at IFTR World Congress, International Federation for Theatre
Research (Munich, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitàt, July 29, 2010).
“The Interweaving Loop in Moroccan Theatre”, a Dahlem Humanities Center Lecture,
presented at the Freie Universität Berlin, May 5, 2010.
“Fields of Silence in Arabic Performance Studies: Neglected Genealogies”, a paper
presented at Theatrum Incognitum International Symposium, organized b y the Academy
of Arts in Cooperation with The Supreme Council of Culture, Cairo 2-4 April 2010.
“Contesting Performance between East and West”, a paper presented in Scenes of
Encounter Symposium, University of Amsterdam Oct 25-26, 2007.
“Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene”, a public lecture presented at the
University of Aberystwyth, UK, (February 22, 2006), and the Middle East Centre, Middle
Tennessee State University (September 18, 2006), and the Centre of Moroccan Studies,
The University of Harvard (October 4, 2006).
“Traditional Field Plays and Games in Morocco”, a paper presented at the Seventh
International Conference on Traditional Field Plays and Games, Tokyo 1-3/11/2003.
« Tangiers’ Eyes’ and the Anxiety of Writing Exile » (English), a paper presented at the
International conference: Exiles and Outsiders organized by the British Council in King
Fahd School of Translation, Tangier between 25/26 April 2002.
“Paul Bowles’ Tangier », a paper presented in Tangier to American students within the
program of Contemporary North African Cultures at Al-Akhawayn University on the
6th/July/2002.
« Mohamed Mrabet: The Popular Philosopher », a paper presented at the 8th Session of
the International Festival of Rabat on the 16/July 2002.
« Towards a double critique of Moroccan Theatre », a paper presented at the University
Hassan II in the 14th session of the International University Theatre Festival, Casablanca:
3/Sep/2002. Also published in Al-Itihād Alusbui…
“Mohamed Alkaghat and the Abyss of Representativity in Al-murtajala”, a paper presented
at the University Hassan II in the 13th session of the International University Theatre
Festival, Casablanca: 6/Sep/2001.
« Moroccan Shakespeare: From Moors to Moroccans », a paper presented at the
international conference: PostColonialisms/Political Correctnesses » organized by The
Postgraduate School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham and
the British Council at Morocco, 12-14 April 2001, hosted by The Churchill Club, Casablanca.
“Brecht in the Arab World », a paper presented at Goethe Institute, Rabat Jan 24, 2001.
“Al-halqa Performance from Jemaa el fna to the Stage Building », published at Al-Quds AlArabi Volume 12 -Issue 3524/5 Friday and Saturday 8/9 September 2000.
« Dramatic Art and the Myth of Origin », a paper published at Al-Quds Al-Arabi (Volume 12-
Issue 3483 Saturday/Sunday 22/23July 2000. and republished at Al-Ittihad Al-Ishtiraki,
Issue 6220, Sunday August 20, 2000.
« Moroccan Theatre: From Eclipses to Hybridity », a paper presented at the Summer Arabic
Program at the Akhawayn University in Ifrane, June 24-2000.
« Moroccan Theatre: A Critique of its Ambiguous Compromises », a paper given in the
National Conference organized by the Drama Research Group at the Faculty of Letters,
Tetouan Feb. -24-5- 2000.
“Al-halqa Performance in Morocco: A Liminal Space of Orature », presented in the
American Ethnological Society Meetings, March 23-2000, in Tampa, Florida, USA.
« Brecht’s Impact on Arabic Theatre », published in Almoudarris: Revue des Sciences ET de
l’Education, Fes: Ecole Normale Superieure (December 1999 N 3).
« Methods of teaching Drama at the University », a paper given at the Faculty of Letters of
Tetouan, March 11, 1999.
« Brecht’s Negotiations in Arabic Theatre », a paper given at the Faculty of Letters and
Humanities, Tetouan, Dec. 1998.
‘The Arabs in Spain’, a paper given in The Tracking Culture Program, 1998. ‘The Arabs in
Spain’, a paper given in The Tracking Culture Program, 1998.
« The Hybrid Condition of Moroccan Drama », a paper given at the Agadir Festival of
University Theatre, March 28-31, 1998.
« Theatrical Hybridity in Morocco: An Ambiguous Compromise » , a paper given at the

Colloquium Series of The Centre For Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas , also in
the international conference on « The Postcolonial Condition of Hybridity », Kenitra, March
12-14, 1998.
« Paul Bowles in His Double Exile », a paper given in the presentation of the first translation
of Paul Bowles into Arabic, Tangier, July 1, 1997.
« Towards a Critique of Western Representations of Arabic Theatre », a paper given at the
Tangier’s conference on « Moroccan drama as manifested in criticism », June 19, 1997.
« Dissonant Uses of Brecht in Moroccan Drama/Theatre », (a paper presented at The Drama
Research Group’s Study Day at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Meknes December
12, 1995).
« Extensions of Naturalism in Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House and Luigi Pirandello’s Six
Charactersin Search of an Author », a paper given in the Post-graduate Seminar, December
12, 1991, Department of Literature, University of Essex.
Review Essays
Review of Le théâtre marocain a l’épreuve du texte étranger (Moroccan Theatre:
Experimenting with the Foreign Text) By Omar FERTAT (Bordeaux: Bordeaux University
Press, 2018) (Arab Stages, 2019).
Review of Terror and Performance by Rustom Bharucha. Theatre Research International.
40. 3 (2015): 332-333.
Review of Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost by Margaret
Litvin. 46.4 (2012): (563- 566).
Review of Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre by Masūd Hamdān, Digest of the
Middle East Studies, (Fall 2007): 140- 144.
Research LANGUAGES
Arabic, English, and French