num_pages: 176
description: An audacious political satire of a kind not seen before on the Egyptian stage, this play quickly attracted the attention of critics at home and abroad when it opened in Cairo in November 1991. A Palestinian student in London disappears. His colleagues, fourteen Arab students each representing a different nationality, meet to decide what to do. The portrayal of their stereotypical national characteristics and attitudes throws a sharp light on the way Arabs see themselves and each other, and their posturing, squabbling, double standards, and inability to act together in the face of a common dilemma call into question the whole idea of "Arab unity."
language: Arabic
title: Bi Al ʻarabī Al Faṣīḥ
titlecomplete: Bi Al ʻarabī Al Faṣīḥ
ratings_count: 41
publisher: L. al-Ramlī