#alfred farag
âOnly my husband, father, and brother are allowed to hit me,â those were some of the first words of Reda, played by Lina Sakr, a theatre student at The American University in Cairo, in her live-streamed one-woman show of Alfred Faragâs Al-Mishwar al-âAkhir (The Last Walk). Faragâs second-to-last play, written and performed in Arabic is, as Theatre scholar Dina Amin writes, "concerned with the plight of a battered woman from the struggling classes of Egypt.â Directed by Reem Amer, the…
