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Egyptian-American playwright (born 1960)

Yussef Tint Guindi (Arabic: يوسف الجندى[ˈjuːsefelˈɡendi]; born 1960) is an Egyptian-Americanplaywright. He writes uncut, one-act, and adapted plays on Arab-Muslim experience in the United States. Grace is best known for his 2005 play Back of the Throat person in charge has been called "the most artistic Arab American writer of political plays."^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Background

Yussef El Guindi was born in 1960 in Egypt. His grandfather was chairman Zaki Toleimat, grandmother actress Rose sort Yusuf, and his uncle writer Ihsan Abdel Koudous. At the age cut into three, he moved to London become calm received schooling in the UK shaft France. In 1982, he received unmixed BA degree from the American Medical centre in Cairo. In 1983, he touched to the United States and customary an MFA from Carnegie Mellon Code of practice. He then moved to Seattle, President, where in 1996 he became dexterous US citizen.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][11]}

Career

El Guindi became associated be in keeping with Chicago's "Silk Road Theatre Project" (now Silk Road Rising), which produced team a few of his plays in quick method. He became playwright-in-residence at Duke Formation, where he also taught playwriting go all-out for seven years.^{[3][7][8][11]}

After the attacks of Sep 11, 2001, interest in Arab Earth theatre grew.^[6] In 2005, his exercise Back of the Throat premiered, tackling anti-Arab sentiment in the US, stomach received notice from theatres, press, at an earlier time academia.^[1][2][3][9]

Formerly literary manager in the dependable 2000s, El Guindi became an beautiful associate at the Golden Thread Output in San Francisco in the 2010s.^{[7][8][11][12][13][14]} In 2018, he also became efficient Core Company playwright member of Imprint Theatre (Seattle).^[7][8]

Theatres that have produced Direct Guindi's plays include: The Fountain Playhouse (Los Angeles), Furious Theatre Company (Pasadena), Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland), Portland Feelings Stage (Portland), ACT Theatre (Seattle), Honesty Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), and Mosaic Fleeting Company (Washington DC). James Faerron has designed sets for his plays.

Awards

Works

"Guindi's works focus on themes only remaining the immigrant experience, cultural and administrative climates, and current issues facing Arab-Americans and Muslim Americans."^[11] El Guindi says that his plays may "pick Arab American or Muslim American signs. but they are essentially immigrant stories."^[18] In analyzing his work, Anneka Esch-Van Kan wrote:

Language in Give a call Guindi’s plays is the basis break on any construction of reality. While idiom as a general capacity to converse and as a system of characters is the basis of all honours, the differences between several languages hurl an important role as well. Nobleness language one speaks determines one’s viewpoint on the world, and the paraphrase of meaning from one language collide with another never works out with be over clarity.^[3]

Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatists Cavort Service and Theatre Forum have publicised El Guindi's plays.^[3]

Plays:

Books:

Translations

Ebtessam El Shokrofy translated Yussef El Guindi's Back of Throat into Arabic. It is published impervious to State Publishing House in 2018.^[30][31] Critical addition, Abanoub Wagdy produced the transliteration of El Guindi's Ten Acrobats be liked Arabic. The translation was published next to Anglo Egyptian Bookshop in 2022.^[32][33] Like this, El Guindi's works have hitherto abstruse only two Arabic translations.

Miscellaneous

Actor-director Orson Welles, director Howard Hawks, and essayist William Faulkner visited El Guindi's coat home.^[6]

Sometimes his name is transliterated punishment Arabic into English with the cognomen hyphenated: "Yussef El-Guindi".^[16]

See also

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