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Podcast: BULAQ | بŮŮاŮ
Episode: Sentenced to Hope
Description: We spend most of this episode discussing the work and life of the Syrian playwright Saâdallah Wannous, and how strongly it relates to repression, resistance and art in the Arab region today. SHOW NOTES: A new Saâdallah 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 McNaughtâs  essay âYarmouk Miniaturesâ and about Arwa Salih and the Arab left to which he...