Tawfiq al-Hakim

Tawfiq al-Hakim was born in Alexandria in 1898, the son of a wealthy judge. A law graduate in Cairo, in 1925 according to al-bab, he left for Paris to prepare a doctorate, but spent more time in the theatres and at the Opera than at the university and returned to Egypt without having completed it, in 1928. A deputy public prosecutor in Alexandria, he then worked, according to al-bab, in the courts of Tanta, Damanhur and Desouk. He defended a theatre of the mind, made for reading rather than for performance. He died in 1987.

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• TheatreThe People of the Caveأهل الكهفTawfiq al-Hakim · 1933Literature