AR4471 Contemporary Theatre in the Arab World

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Planned timetable

To be confirmed

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Module coordinator

Dr T Manucharyan

Dr T Manucharyan
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Module Staff

Dr Tiran Manucharyan; Mr Michael Whitehouse

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Module description

This module will study a selection of Arabic plays and theoretical works on Arabic theatre written in the second half of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Students will be required to analyse the artistic aspects of the plays within the contexts of socio-political issues in the contemporary Arab world and beyond it. The module is designed to improve and broaden students’ knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic as well as their skills in cultural analysis.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

ADMISSION TO HONOURS ARABIC

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

90 minute seminar weekly (x 11); 2 module surgery hours (X11)

Scheduled learning hours

16

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

130

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Explain the impact of socio-political developments on the ways theatre in the Arab world has transformed.
  • Explain the various devices through which theatre comments on socio-political developments.
  • Critique the artistic parameters of theatre texts such as language, literary and theatrical devices, characterisation, the use of various times and spaces.
  • Critique theatre beyond its artistic parameters, as a source for studying history, society, religion, gender, politics as well as studying languages.