Assem Nagaty, the 1st Arab-African in Shanghai Theatre Academy

CAIRO – 5 August 2018: Shanghai Theatre Academy hosted the artist Assem Nagaty as the first Arab and African artist in the Master Class and Workshop program with a group of professional performers, theater teachers and students.

Nagaty assured in special remarks to Egypt Today that during this workshop he focused on the ghost figures and prophecies in Shakespeare's work and mixed it with the mystical poems of Ibn al-Farid and Sufi music, in addition to the jinn in Taghribat Bani Hilal and the magic and prophecy in the Pharaonic civilization.

Nagaty presented his scientific experiences to art students at the Shanghai Academy. He started a new path in the analysis of the characters to the poems of Ibn al-Farid and Sufi music and its visual vocabulary.

Nagaty is an Egyptian actor, stage director and a professor at the Academy of Arts. He was the Head of the National Center for Theatre.