to a new era of contemporary Lebanese theater.” Shakib Khoury, Masraḥ al-‘Abath al-Arabī, Paris, 1970. “Of the most dedicated writers to human rights issues, he called for justice and patience, and believed that change can be achieved.” Abdo Wazen, al-Ḥayat, 6/2/2004. “The fundamental inventiveness in the playwriting of Issam Mahfouz gave new blood not only for Lebanese theater but for the whole world.” Buallam Ramadan, al-Sha’ab, Algiers, 2/12/88. “If we talk about Lebanese theater, in the first rank comes the work of Issam Mahfouz who strongly proved his distinctiveness as a pioneering playwright." Mireze Akar, Le Monde, 22/12/1972. “Issam Mahfouz wrote a specific movement with respect to language which made him one of the pioneers of modern playwrights of the modern Arab world.” Maurice Maalouf, Al-Diyār, Lebanon, May 1990. “The first poems of Mahfouz are justly considered among the genuine heralds that participated in creating the avant-garde movement.” Antoine Gattas Karam, as quoted in al-Mawt al-Awwal, 1973 List of works Dramatic texts al-Zinzalakht (The China Tree), Dar al-Nahar, 1968. Translated into English with introduction by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Roger Allen and published in "Modern Arabic Drama: An Anthology", Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1995. al-Qatl (The Killing), Manshurat Majallat Fikr, 1968. Carte Blanche, Manshurat Majallat Al-Masaref, 1970. In 1974 the play was translated into German along with nine other plays in Arabische Dramen, the first book in the West of its kind to introduce plays from seven Arab countries where theater was flourishing at the time. The ten plays were selected and translated by Ursula Bedschihl and Adel Kurra Scholli al-Diktātūr (The Dictator), Dar Al-Tali’a, 1972. Translated into English with introduction by Robert Myers and Nada Saab and published in "Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant", London, Brill, 2018; translated into Flemish by Lore Baeten and published as "De Dictator", Brussels, Bebuquin/Moussem, 2017. Limāthā Rafadha Sirhan Sirhan Ma Qalahu al-Za’im ‘an Farajalla al-Helou Fī Stereo 71 (Why did Sirhan Sirhan Refuse What The Leader (Antoine Sa’adi) said about Farajalla al-Helou in Cabaret 71?). Radio Dramas, Dar al-Quds, 1975. ‘Iḥda ‘Ashar Qadhiya Dhud al-Hurrīyah (Eleven Cases against Freedom), Dar al-Quds, 1975. Gibran: Ṣura Shakhsia, Masraḥiyah Wathāqīyah (Gibran: A Personal Portrait, a documentary play), al-Moassasa al-Arabiyya, 1983. al-Masraḥiyāt al-Qasīrah (The Short Plays), Dar Ab’aad, 1984. al-A’māl al-Masraḥiya al-Kāmila (The Complete Dramatic Works), Dar al-Fikr al-Jadid, 1988. al-Ta’arīh (Nakedness), Dar al-Farabi, 2003. *al-A’māl al-Masraḥīyah al-Kāmilah, Tab’a Munaqaḥ wa-Mazīd (The Complete Dramatic