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Carmen Gitre

Carmen Gitre

Associate Professor of Middle East History at Virginia Tech; specializes in Egyptian theater and performance culture

Jun 22, 2026

40:27
I also want you to, maybe not right now, but I really want you to talk about Farah Antun's play, Misr al-Jadidah, and all that stuff.
40:38
Yeah, I mean, it's related to what I'm saying, which is that for the people who kind of emerge and start putting on these plays, Many of them are attendees and many of them are trying to use this.
40:55
They see the stage as an appropriate place for educating people like they see it as a parallel to schools.
41:04
And so they take very seriously what actually appears on the stage.
41:09
And there's a lot of debate.
41:10
So this is, again, as the press is developing, you see more and more conversations about what does it mean to be a play? The language of what a play is changes from...
41:21
I think it's , which is playing, to , which is like telling a story more.

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52:30
Who are some of the names? Give me some of the

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