Rarely does cultural criticism in theater take such an entertaining form as The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi. This volume, with a valuable introduction provided by Michael Malek Najjar, has something for everyone. It dishes out humor in large heapings, and doles out plenty of curtain-worthy drama and surprise twists. Nor are we spared the mess of human existence; the careening intersections of dogmas and idiosyncrasies. * Al Jadid Magazine * This first collection of work from the leading Arab-American dramatist, with an impressive body of supplementary material, would be an important contribution in its own right, but Yussef El Guindis ongoing exploration of the negotiations of a minority group in the United States today, especially a minority so symbolically central as the Arab-Americans, gives his work particular interest and importance. This collection should be on the shelf not only of anyone interested in the contemporary American theatre, but of anyone interested in the dynamics of minority populations in the U.S, todayarguably the nations most pressing social and cultural concern. * Marvin Carlson, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA * To refer to Yussef El Guindi as only an influential Arab-American playwright would be to taper off the width of his contributions to world theater. While the human experiences within which he writes include many liminal characters living in-and-between time and space, his overall dramatic view of humanity is universal and transcends the lens of hybridity. Yussef El Guindi composes his plays with precision, intellect and humor; and with a supertext that connects all his works together. Yussef El Guindi writes with both reader and spectator in mind and his work is both dramatic literature and theatrical. * Dina Amin, Associate Professor of Drama and Performance, Cairo University, Egypt *
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