Graduate Student, Theatre, Performance and Cultural Studies
PhD Candidate and Part-Time Faculty Member
Janelle Reinelt
About
Hazem Azmy is currently completing doctoral research at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. In his home country, Egypt he had an extensive career as theatre and interdisciplinary humanities scholar, university teacher, professional translator, dramaturg, cross-cultural speaker, and frequent contributor to scholarly, trade, and popular publications. He is the author of the entire portfolio on Egypt in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford University Press, 2003). He is also the Editor of The Experimental, the English-language daily of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET). He has been one of the driving forces behind the formation of a new Arabic Theatre Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT).He was recently appointed as member of the Executive Committee of the IFTR/FIRT as New Scholars' Representative (2008-10). Azmy is currently guest-editing (with Marvin Carlson) a special issue of Ecumenica titled Performing Islam/Muslim Realities (forthcoming in December 2008).
Contact Information
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/cll/skills/eportfolio/students/eportfoliodirectory/current/tsrfae/
