He was also a great innovator. When he embraced writing for the theatre he believed, and correctly so, that he was an innovator. The theatre as an art form was new to Egypt. They embodied all kinds of creativities and tendencies, trying to solve artistic, linguistic and literary problems. But in our country, our language and our literature have a limited and contrite experience in theatre.
Arabic literature has only in recent years recognised theatre as a literary form.
Going through Al-Hakim's works, including his short stories, one can detect a reflection of his often expressed opinion that all through their history Egyptians were preoccupied with resurrection. I find interesting the comparison the translator makes in his introduction between Al-Hakim and Virginia Woolf. Going through these excellent translations, one gets the feeling that Tawfiq Al-Hakim wrote the short stories as a kind of recreation between novels and plays. His short stories do not necessarily follow the rules of the genre. The death of these two martyrs of the sun boats were not carved in stone, but seeds from these vents germinated over centuries and generations, their growth recorded in blood.