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“Only my husband, father, and brother are allowed to hit me,” 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 Farag’s Al-Mishwar al-‘Akhir (The Last Walk). Farag’s 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.” Directed by Reem Amer, the…