Tawfiq al-Hakim

Tawfiq al-Hakim, an Egyptian writer and writer, one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and playwriting and one of the most prominent names in the history of modern Arabic literature. The way in which the Arab literary street received his artistic productions, between considering them a great success at times and a great failure at other times, had the greatest impact on the crystallization of the specific influence of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s literature and his thought on successive generations of writers. His famous play, People of the Cave in 1933, was an important event in Arab drama. That play was the beginning. To the emergence of a theatrical trend known as mental theatre. Despite Tawfiq al-Hakim’s prolific production, he only wrote a small number of plays that could be performed on stage. Most of his plays are of the type that were written to be read, and through them the reader discovers a world of evidence and symbols that can be easily projected onto reality to contribute to presenting a critical vision of life and society characterized by a great deal of depth and awareness.