In plain Arabic
Subtitle: a play in two acts
By: Lenin El-Ramly ; translated by Esmat Allouba.
Contributors: Allouba, Esmat.
Series: Modern Arabic writing
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cairo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
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."