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159:(Arabic for "Dreams"), which is also the name of one of the characters. In this program, Ghawar tries to do his best to provide his child Ahlam with the best of everything, but everything goes wrong because of bureaucracy and corruption. After checking the hospital months before the birth for ambulance and food and room, his wife ends giving birth at home because there is no fuel for the ambulance that day. 162:
Ghawar, who is a son of a martyr and carries his decoration all the time, has great faith in the government's efforts to reduce poverty and unemployment, and dreams of a bright future for his daughter. But all this goes away when months later his daughter dies because the doctor let her wait while
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is returned to its people, but Ghawar, who first manages his father's feelings, is unable to withhold truth any longer and tell the shameful state of the Arabian countries to his father, who feels that he died for nothing.
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The program is interrupted by different songs and advertisement on the so-called RAC, each of them criticizing the state of the Arabs in the late 1970s, including arts, politics, and social issues.
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Ghawar's quest to justice takes him through different adventures including prison. By the end of the play, he sells his other three children and, abandoned by his wife, he becomes an alcoholic.
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The last episode of the program include a conversation between Ghawar and his dead father, who assume that 40 years after his sacrifice, Arab lands are united again and
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The play is a reproduction of a radio broadcasting, from the RAC (Radio Arab Carlo), a parody of the popular
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Ghawar: Father of Ahlam and the main character of the story. Ghawar was a character in Maghut's play
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Political performance in Syria : from the six-day war to the Syrian uprising
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Ahlam: daughter of Ghawar, who died in hospital because of careless staff
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play performed in 1978. Starring the famous Arab actor
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Index

Arabic
Syrian
tragicomic
Duraid Lahham
Muhammad al-Maghut
Khaldoun al-Malehh
Duraid Lahham
Omar Hajjo
Hala shawkat
Sabah Al-Jazza'iri
Shaker Brikhan
Suzan Fakhri
Hiyam To'eme
Hussam Tahhsin Bek
Samir Hhelmi
Salma Al-Masri
Omar Badrakhat
Radio MonteCarlo
Palestine
"Clowns of the Revolution: The Malas Twins and Syrian Oppositional Performance"
doi
10.1017/S0307883313000023
ISSN
0307-8833
S2CID
193239691
Political performance in Syria : from the six-day war to the Syrian uprising
ISBN
978-1-137-35897-4
OCLC

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