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Thanks, Hazem M. Azmy, American University in Cairo
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Submission date/time: 01-Jan-2004 20:23:24
Your Name: Hazem M. Azmy, American University in Cairo
Your Email: hazemazmy@yahoo.com
About You: MA, English and Comp Lit (AUC)
Egyptian theatre and interdisciplinary humanities scholar and practitioner
(dramaturg and, occasionally, actor), translator, and freelance journalist and
editor. Most recently, author of the entire portfolio on Egypt (15 entries) in
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford
University Press, 2003).
Homepage: http://hazemazmy.8m.net/home.html


This is the information you have submitted about an African person not yet in our database ...
Family Name: Wasfi
Given Name: Hoda
Pseudonym:
Title: Professor
Gender: F
Birth: / /
Death: / /
Country: Egypt
Positions: Artistic Director, Al-Hanager Centre for the Arts
Advisor to the Minister of Culture
Editor,Fossoul Literary Journal
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Ain Shams University
Ex-Artistic Director, The Egyptian National Theatre
Former Director of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre
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Other Information: See
Amin, Dina."Women in Arab Theatre: Finding a Voice" in Rubin, Don, ed. The
World Encyclopdia of Contemporary Theatre. Vol. 4 (The Arab Wold). Routledge,
1994. 25-30
Your Reasons: Hoda Wasfi is indeed a household name in Arab intellectual circle and a
pioneering figure, all the more so because of her being a Christian woman in a
Muslim cultural setting
Corroboration: See above or run a google search
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