| 词条 | Karim Alrawi |
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|imagesize = | | name = Karim Alrawi | image = Karim_Alrawi_Writers_Fest._2010.jpg | caption = Reading from a work in progress at the Vancouver International Writer's Festival 2010 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Alexandria, Egypt | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer, playwright | nationality = Canadian, British, Egyptian | genre = Literary Fiction, Children's fiction, Plays | subject = Middle East; Contemporary England & North America; Identity Politics; Racism | movement = Post-colonial, Realism, Post-modern | notableworks = Migrations, Child in the Heart, Promised Land, The Unbroken Heart, Deep Cut, Madinat al-Salam | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.karimalrawi.com}} }} Karim Alrawi (Arabic كريم الراوي) is a writer born in Alexandria, Egypt. His family emigrated to England then to Canada. He was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.[1] He has taught creative writing at a number of universities in the US and Canada. In the UK, he was Literary Manager of the Theatre Royal Stratford East and later Resident Writer at the Royal Court Theatre in Central London. He moved to Egypt, where he taught in the theatre department of the American University in Cairo. In Egypt his plays were banned by the state censor.[2][3] He was arrested and detained for interrogation by Egyptian State Security about his writings and for his work with the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR).[4] As a Fulbright International Scholar[5] he moved to the United States. He later took positions as Writer in Residence at Meadow Brook Theatre (MBT) in Michigan and Editor in Chief of ARABICA magazine,[6] the leading nationally distributed Arab-American publication[7] with a certified readership of over 100,000 readers.[8] Subsequently, Alrawi supervised aid and development projects in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, for the Canadian Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, where he was Director of International Programs, the US-Arab Economic Forum,[9] where he was Executive Director and the World Bank as Communications Advisor and Manager of External Affairs for the Middle East and North Africa. Alrawi supervised media and conflict resolution training projects in Nepal and in South-East Asia[10] and projects to support women-managed community radio stations and a newspaper in Afghanistan,[11] as well as media training and peacebuilding projects in North Africa and the Middle East[12] including Iraq.[13][14][15] He gave testimony before the US Congress on Human Rights in the Middle East[16] and was a member of the Canadian delegation led by Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference on Good Governance in the Arab World,[17] as well as a member of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (POGAR, 1999–2005).[18] AwardsAlrawi's fiction, plays and productions have received several awards including:
His children's book The Girl Who Lost Her Smile was winner of Parents Magazine Gold Award 2002 and was a finalist for the Kentucky Bluegrass Book Award (Kentucky Students' Choice) 2002.[19] His picture book The Mouse Who Saved Egypt was listed for the People's Prize in the UK. He has received writer's awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain and from the Canada Council for the Arts. British playsAlrawi's first full-length play Migrations was produced at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and his second play A Colder Climate was produced at the Royal Court Theatre in Central London. It was followed by three plays, Fire in the Lake, A Child in the Heart and Promised Land for Joint Stock Theatre, then one of Britain's major touring companies.[20] All three plays provoked controversy at the time of performance.[21][22] As Carol Woddis noted about Child in the Heart, "this almost messianic piece about the desperate pain of loss of roots and, in the truly biblical sense, tribal identity, refuses to let its audience off the hook."[23] Fire in the Lake was awarded an Edinburgh Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Crossing the Water a play about the British in Egypt and the Suez War was given a stage reading at the ICA in London before being produced at the American University in Cairo's Jamil Center despite a banning order by the Egyptian state censor.[24] Alrawi's play Blind Edge, produced by the Old Vic Theatre, was staged at the Commonwealth Institute in London as part of the Festival of Asia, while his play Aliens won the Festival of Asia & Capital Radio's National Playwriting Award.[25] While in England, Alrawi wrote plays for The Old Red Lion Theatre, Soho Theatre, M6 Theatre, Half Moon Theatre, Newcastle Playhouse, the Old Vic Theatre, London, and the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.[26] Arabic playsIn Egypt, Alrawi taught at the theatre department of the American University in Cairo (AUC).[27] His first serious run-in with the state censor was when his play Crossing the Water was banned and he was summoned to give an account of himself to the censor's office.[28] Later that year, as a response to the censor, he adapted The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, setting it in contemporary Egypt. It was staged at the Wallace Theatre of AUC in central Cairo.[29] Also, Alrawi wrote four stage plays in Arabic two of which were staged at the Wallace Theatre.[24] Madinate el Salam (City of Peace) is a retelling of the life of the Sufi poet Mansour al-Hallaj who was executed in tenth century Baghdad on charges of heresy. The play was produced twice, both times after being refused a license by the state censor that led to threats of arrest of Alrawi by state security. The second produced play, Al-Bayt al Mahgour (The Abandoned House) was about sexual exploitation and its roots in Egypt's history of class privilege. The production of the plays, despite being denied rehearsal and production licenses by the state censor, was a contributory cause to Alrawi's later arrest and interrogation.[30] Autobis al Intikhabat (The Election Bus), a satire on the Egyptian electoral system and Mudun Gha'iba (Absent Cities) about the destruction of Arab cities by war were two full-length plays that were to be produced with a cast of students from AUC. Alrawi and his actors were denied access to the Wallace theatre during the final days of rehearsals resulting in cancellation of the performances. North American playsKarim Alrawi was resident writer at Iowa State University, Pennsylvania State University, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Oakland University and at Meadow Brook Theatre (MBT) in Michigan.[31] He taught playwriting at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and later was a resident at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa,[32] where he taught creative writing and global literature courses for the Between the Lines program.[33] The Unbroken Heart a play based on the life of the blues singer Ethel Waters was first performed at the Fisher Theatre in Iowa before touring nationally.[34][35] His plays for MBT included A Gift of Glory,[36] about the Mexican artist Diego Rivera and the Ford family; Chagall's Arabian Nights,[37] a story of Marc Chagall's painting of the Arabian Nights and Killing Time,[38] a play about physician assisted suicide. He also wrote plays that toured local schools and ran theatre workshops for disadvantaged kids in South-East Michigan.[39]His play Sarajevo about the Bosnian war was given a workshop production at MBT and the Shenandoah Arts Theatre. The play Sugar Candy was given a staged reading at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis. Patagonia[40] a play about torture and resistance was first performed by Ruby Slippers Theatre in Vancouver, Canada. Across The Morne a play for two actors and dogs, set in Newfoundland, was given a staged reading at the Playwrights' Theatre Centre, Vancouver, Canada. Deep Cut, a play set on the American Gulf Islands about cultural conflict and political and personal expediency, was staged at La MaMa ETC[41] in New York as well as by Golden Thread Theatre in San Francisco and Washington, DC.[42]Children's fictionAlrawi has written two children's picture books: The Girl Who Lost Her Smile and The Mouse Who Saved Egypt. The Girl Who Lost Her Smile was staged and performed as a children's play in the UK by Tutti Frutti Theatre and York Theatre Royal,[43] and in the United States by Golden Thread Theatre. The Mouse Who Saved Egypt was edited on a rooftop overlooking Tahrir Square in Cairo, during the Egyptian revolution.[44]Adult FictionAlrawi's novel Book of Sands, subtitled a novel of the Arab uprising, was published by HarperCollins in the Fall of 2015. The novel won the inaugural HarperCollins Publishers Prize for Best New Fiction[45] and was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Best Book of 2015.[46] Other productionsKarim Alrawi has written for BBC radio and television, as well as for Channel Four television in the UK. References1. ^University of Iowa, The Writing University, Writers, http://thestudio.uiowa.edu/vwu/ucol/mobile/edit/main.php?a_id=161 2. ^Karim Alrawi, "Pop Goes the Censor", Writer's Blog, June 3, 2011, http://www.karimalrawi.com/writer/Writers_Blog/Entries/2011/6/3_Pop_goes_the_Censor.html 3. ^"The still, small voice within Egypt" Index on Censorship, London, February 1992 4. ^"Fear of the Word." Media Guardian, The Guardian newspaper, London, December 20, 1993 5. ^"Karim Alrawi Biography", The Writing University, UNESCO City of Literature, https://www.writinguniversity.org/writers/karim-alrawi 6. ^Lama Bakri, "Arab-American magazine draws national readership", Detroit News, March 23, 2000, {{ISSN|1055-2715}} 7. ^Jim Dulzo, "Arabica magazine finds lucrative niche", Detroit News, December 20, 2000, {{ISSN|1055-2715}} 8. ^"Arabica magazine Subscriber Profile", John Zogby International, client report, October 2000 9. ^Karim Alrawi, "Interview on Change in Saudi Arabia", Oil & Gas Financial Journal, volume 2, issue 7, September 1, 2005 10. ^Arthur Weinreb, "Canadian media could use some help too", Canada Free Press, April 5, 2005, http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/media040505.htm 11. ^Government of Canada, Radio Rabi'ah Balkhi gives women a voice in Afghanistan, http://www.afghanistan.gc.ca/canada-afghanistan/stories-reportages/womenradio-radiofemmes.aspx 12. ^Karim Alrawi, "interview," Internews Newsletter, http://www.internews.org/newsletters/2003_12/win03_alrawi.htm 13. ^Designs for Independent Media in Iraq, Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, http://www.stanhopecentre.org/research/designs/participants.shtml 14. ^Karim Alrawi, "Media in the New Iraq", Arab Reform Bulletin, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 2004, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2008/08/20/media-in-new-iraq/da 15. ^Karim Alrawi Interview, "Politicians threatening Iraq's press freedom", Daily Times, March 29, 2005, Pakistan, http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-3-2005_pg4_13 16. ^Karim Alrawi, "Testimony before the US congress," International Journalist Network, http://ijnet.org/opportunities/internews-middle-east-director-testifies-us-congress 17. ^Good Governance for Development in the Arab Countries, http://www.oecd.org/mena/governance/34945764.pdf 18. ^Karim Alrawi, "Media Development (initiative in support of civil society in Iraq)," United Nations Development Programme, July 2004, http://www.iq.undp.org/UploadedFiles/Projects/8f5f4742-6952-4ac1-9775-eb988e0579a3.pdf 19. ^Author Awards, Tradewind Books, http://tradewindbooks.com/author-biography&Name=Karim_Alrawi 20. ^Ritchie, R. (ed), "The Joint Stock Book: Making of a Theatre Collective," Methuen, London, 1987, {{ISBN|0-413-41030-7}} 21. ^Joyce Devlin, "Joint Stock: From Colorless Company to Company of Color." Theatre Topics Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, March 1991, {{ISSN|1054-8378}} 22. ^Sara Freeman, "Writing the History of an Alternative Theatre Company: Mythology and the Last Years of Joint Stock." Theatre Survey 47:1, American Society for Theatre Research, May 2006, {{ISSN|0040-5574}} 23. ^Carol Woddis, '"Child in the Heart, play review." City Limits magazine, London, April 21, 1988 24. ^1 Walter Eysselinck, "Identity and Anxiety in the Plays of Karim Alrawi." Theatre Workshop Paper, American University in Cairo, 1991 25. ^Madhav Sharma, producer and theatre directing credits, http://www.madhavsharma.com/?page_id=63 26. ^Karim Alrawi, Guide to Plays, doollee.com, http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsA/alrawi-karim.html 27. ^Karim Alrawi interview, Dramatists Guild Quarterly, Spring 1994, http://www.karimalrawi.com/writer/Interview.html 28. ^"No Queens on the Nile." The Guardian newspaper, London, July 27, 1990 29. ^"The Three Sisters", American University in Cairo, http://www.aucegypt.edu/huss/pva/theater/archive/Pages/ThreeSisters.aspx 30. ^"Kindest regards: you're banned." Index on Censorship, London, February 1992 31. ^Thom Foxlee & Maryann Foxlee, "Fifty Years of Meadow Brook Theatre", Arcadia Publishing, July 2015, {{ISBN|978-1467114202}} 32. ^{{Cite web|url=https://iwp.uiowa.edu/residency/participants-by-year/2013%20Resident|title=2013 Resident Participants {{!}} The International Writing Program|website=iwp.uiowa.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-04-10}} 33. ^International Writing Program, University of Iowa, http://iwp.uiowa.edu/programs/between-the-lines/2015 34. ^Joe Pollack, "Busy Theatre Calendar", St. Louis Post, Missouri, USA, September 6, 1992 35. ^Peter Lennon, "Speaking out in a volatile climate", The Guardian, UK, May 28, 1994 36. ^George Bullard, "Play shows Detroit as an art sanctuary", Detroit News, March 6, 1999, {{ISSN|1055-2715}} 37. ^Celia Wren, "I Dream of Genie", American Theatre magazine, volume 17, issue 4, April 2000, {{ISSN|8750-3255}} 38. ^Michael Margolin, "Killing Time questions living without quality of life", Detroit News, February 16, 2001, {{ISSN|1055-2715}} 39. ^Meadow Brook Theatre Archives, Kresge Library, http://library.oakland.edu/information/departments/archives/Meadowbrooktheatre.html 40. ^Chris Dafoe, "Sled among top Jessie nominees", Globe and Mail, May 17, 1997 41. ^Nelson Pressley, "Deep Cut needs a sharper production", Washington Times, April 19, 1996 42. ^Rashad Rida, "From Cultural Authenticity to Social Relevance: The plays of Amin al-Rihanni, Khalil Gibran and Karim Alrawi." Colors of Enchantment, Ed. Sherifa Zuhur American University in Cairo Press, 2010 {{ISBN|977-424-607-1}} 43. ^Tutti Frutti return with enchanting children's play, York Theatre Royal, http://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/cgi/news/news.cgi?t=template&a=209 44. ^Author background, BC Book World, http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=10242 45. ^Karim Alrawi wins inaugural Prize for Best New Fiction, "Quill & Quire", November 12, 2013, http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/awards/karim-alrawi-wins-inaugural-prize-for-best-new-fiction/ 46. ^Book of Sands, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Best Books 2015, http://www.cbc.ca/books/2015/09/book-of-sands.html External links{{commons category|Karim Alrawi}}
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