BIOGRAPHY

Monica Ruocco teaches Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Naples "L’Orientale." She is the author of Fāṭimah Rušdī. Memoirs. The Sarah Bernhardt of the East and the First Actress of Arab Theatre (Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino / General Egyptian Book Organization, 2022), Existences: Voices of Arab Dramaturgies between Diaspora and Revolution (UniorPress, 2021), A History of Arab Theatre from the Nahḍa to the Present Day (Carocci, 2010), and The Last Memory. Syrian Memoirs by Sa‘d Allah Wannus (Jouvence, 2004). monica.ruocco@unior.it