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  • 3 - Keeping Silent, or the Silence That Kept Wannous

  • from Part II - Reading Wannous
  • Edited by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut, Robert Myers, American University of Beirut
  • Book:
    The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous
    Published online:
    14 May 2021
    Print publication:
    27 May 2021, pp 59-77

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the figurative and literal silence manifested in the period in which the Syrian playwright Sa’dallah Wannous ceased to write plays altogether. It places this silence within a political framework and identifies historical events related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict such the Camp David Accords and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1978 as the main trigger for Wannous’ literal silence. The chapter also interprets the playwright’s literal silence as a meaningful event rather than an intellectual aporia and points out that during this period, Wannous continued to write critical essays in addition to co-founding and directing the most important theatre school in Syria, the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts.