Tawfiq al hakim biography of alberta

Acclaimed Egyptian playwright Tawfiq al-Hakim's War and Peace presents Politica, a vivacious woman, who must choose between her domineering.

He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama, especially in the adaptation of the literary language, which had previously made literature inaccessible to a large portion of the public. Al-Hakim also weighed in on some of the social and political issues of his day through his dramas. His mother was the daughter of a retired Turkish officer.

Tawfiq al-Hakim enrolled at the Damanhour primary school at the age of seven. He left primary school in ; his father put him in a public school in the Beheira province, where Tawfiq al-Hakim finished secondary school. Due to the lack of proper secondary schooling in the province, Tawfiq al-Hakim then moved to Cairo with his uncles to continue his studies at Muhammad Ali secondary school.

After studying in Cairo, he moved to Paris , where he graduated in law and began preparing a PhD thesis at the Sorbonne, but his attention turned increasingly to the Paris theaters and the Opera. After three years in Paris, he abandoned his studies and returned to Egypt in , full of ideas for transforming Egyptian theater. After returning from his exile to Spain, in addition to Shawqi religious poetry, Shawqi wrote five tragedies using themes from Egyptian and Islamic history.

His dramas provide the immediate context for al-Hakim's plays. The publication and performance of his play, Ahl al-Kahf The People of the Cave, , was a significant event in Egyptian drama. The story of 'the people of the cave' is found in the eighteenth surah of the Qur'an as well as other sources. It concerns the tale of the seven sleepers of Ephesus who, in order to escape the Roman persecution of Christians, take refuge in a cave.

In its use of overarching themes - rebirth into a new world and a predilection for returning to the past - al-Hakim's play touches upon some of the broad cultural topics that were of major concern to his intellectual milieu. The performances were not a success. Audiences seemed unimpressed by the sparsity of action on stage compared to the more popular types of drama.