Radical Mischief | Issue 11 | June 2019

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que answerser new play D about h AGHDA B N I M U A MUSE CAN YO U TELL U S WHY YO U WANTED TO GIV E V OICE TO IRAQI M EN AND WOM EN FROM 1926 AND 2006? Both these periods of time are extremely significant in the history of the Middle East. We rarely touch on Middle Eastern stories in the consideration of history in Europe and when we do it's always from a Western point of view, the soldier or diplomat discovering fair Arabia. Iraq in both these periods is overlooked and absolutely shouldn't be.

H OW AWAR E WE R E YO U OF WANTING TO CO U NTE R TH E STE R E OTYPE S TH AT WE S E E IN O U R DRA MATIC FICTIO N OF ARA B CULTU R E AND OF CH ARACTE R S OF MIDDLE EA STE RN H E RITA G E? Very, very, very – trying to redress the balance of the way Arabs are portrayed on stage and screen is one of the reasons I started writing in the first place. I have always considered representations of Arabs and Muslims to be completely stereotypical and narrow (especially in film and TV) and I'm so sad that it's not getting better, it's getting worse, so I want to try and do my own little thing about that in my writing.


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