Death or Re-birth?: On Vicissitudes of the Egyptian Stage During 2020
This year, for theatre and dance artists around the world, it was necessary to convey the message...
Read MoreNora Amin (Egypt/Germany) is a writer, performer, choreographer and theatre director and educator. Fellow of the centre for theatre of the oppressed (Rio de Janeiro, 2003). Alumni of the Vilar Institute for Arts Management/The John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts (USA, 2004), Cultural Leadership in the Performing Arts (British Council, 2009), Clore Leadership diploma (UK, 2009), S. Fischer guest professor at the general and comparative literature institute (FU, 2004-2005), guest lecturer (Acting) at the theatre department of Mount Holyoke College (USA, 2005), Founder of "The National Egyptian Project for Theatre of the Oppressed" and its Arab network (2011 to date), Former fellow of the Academy of the Arts of the World (Cologne, 2015), former fellow of the International Research Centre for Interweaving Performance Cultures (FU, 2015-2016, and 2017: topic "Theatre and Political Transformation"), Valeska-Gert guest professor for dance studies (FU, summer semester 2018: topic "Performing Trauma").
Posted by Nora Amin | 11th Mar 2020 | Egypt, Essay, Puppetry, Theatre and Decolonization
An essay by Nora Amin that traces the presence of shadow theatre within the modern and...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 4th Apr 2019 | Egypt, News, Theatre and Gender
As March brings along Women’s Day and Mother’s Day, the Egyptian stage should do its part. But how...
Read MoreDirected by the famous comedy actor Ashraf Abdel-Baky, Crime In Maadi play surpasses any revival...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 25th Nov 2018 | France, Morocco, News, Theatre and Gender, Transcultural Collaborations
The University of Bordeaux Montaigne concluded its 2018 public cultural program with a...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 10th Oct 2018 | Festivals, Palestine, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
Bahrain’s Al-Sawari International Theatre Festival took place September 1-9 in Manama, concluding...
Read MoreEgyptian theatre researcher, translator, and critic Hazem Azmi has died on July 10 at the age of...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 13th Oct 2016 | Adaptation, Applied Theatre, Egypt, Essay
It was September 2012 that I had decided to stage An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen. A play...
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