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from Part II - Reading Wannous
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 May 2021
This chapter discusses the figurative and literal silence manifested in the period in which the Syrian playwright Sa’dallah Wannous ceased to write plays altogether. It places this silence within a political framework and identifies historical events related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict such the Camp David Accords and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1978 as the main trigger for Wannous’ literal silence. The chapter also interprets the playwright’s literal silence as a meaningful event rather than an intellectual aporia and points out that during this period, Wannous continued to write critical essays in addition to co-founding and directing the most important theatre school in Syria, the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts.
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