Shams Al-Nahar, Tawfiq Al-Hakim / Dar Al-Shorouk

We were talking about the situation of theaters in two museums. Professor Tawfiq Al-Hakim told me that he envisioned the National Theater being dedicated to presenting the Egyptian theater heritage throughout the year so that this heritage would remain alive and present. Just as museums preserve historical antiquities, the National Theater must preserve the theatrical antiquities. Years passed and he left. Tawfiq Al-Hakim, and the problem became not only that his theatrical heritage was not kept alive on stage, but rather that it was not available even as a printed text. A former Arab Minister of Culture complained to me that he searched in libraries during his visit to Cairo for a number of Al-Hakim’s plays to complete his collection, and he was told It's out of print and out of print for years... Hence my happiness for the Dar Al-Shorouk project to republish the complete works of the father of Arab theater, Tawfiq Al-Hakim. Nations do not grow or prosper except to the extent that their heritage is present in their present, otherwise their contract will be broken and they will lose both their past and their future, in history and politics as well as in literature and the arts.