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Podcast: BULAQ | بولاق
Episode: Sentence to Hope
Description: للاستماع إلى بودكاست بعد أمس http://aj.audio/click We spend most of this episode discussing the work and life of the Syrian playwright Sa'dallah Wannous, and how strongly it relates to repression, resistance and art in the Arab region today.SHOW NOTES: A new Sa'dallah Wannous reader, Sentence to Hope (ed. and trans. Robert Myers and Nada Saab) brings together four translations of plays as well as essays by and interviews with the great Syrian playwright (1941-1996).Read more about reading Wannous in Syria in Matthew McNaught's essay “Yarmouk Miniatures” and about Arwa Salih and the Arab left to which he belo...