"Most histories of the theatre, if they include the Arab world at all (and Western theatre histories have been shamefully remiss in dealing with this part of our heritage) begin with the staging in Beirut in 1847 of a comedy inspired by Moliere's The Miser. This does not mean that the Arab world had not, for centuries, had a rich tradition of ritual and folk performance, like most of the rest of the world, not to mention the shadow play tradition, including Ibn Daniel, which extends back to the European Middle Ages"--
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"Most histories of the theatre, if they include the Arab world at all (and Western theatre histories have been shamefully remiss in dealing with this part of our heritage) begin with the staging in Beirut in 1847 of a comedy inspired by Moliere's The Miser. This does not mean that the Arab world had not, for centuries, had a rich tradition of ritual and folk performance, like most of the rest of the world, not to mention the shadow play tradition, including Ibn Daniel, which extends back to the European Middle Ages"--
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