Saeed Aulaqi (born 1940) is a

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i dramatist and fiction writer. His story "The Succession" has been translated into

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and was anthologized in two anthologies published in the West (''The Literature of Modern Arabia'', 1988 and ''Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World'', 1995). As a

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, he has tackled revolutionary themes and published a number of plays: * Nidaa' al-Ard (The Land's Call) * Fawq al-Jabal (On the Mountaintop) * al-Qawi Wa l-Aqwa (The Strong and the Stronger) * at-Tirka (The Inheritance) * Mashrou' Zawaaj (The Marriage Project) * al-Mahzala al-Idaariyya (The Administrative Farce). He also wrote a comprehensive history of the

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in Yemen entitled ''Sab’oun ‘Aaman Min al-Masrah Fi l-Yaman'' (Seventy Years of Yemeni Theatre, 1980). According to the

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scholar Gunther Orth, Aulaqi was born in 1946 in

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.Orth's 2004 essay on Yemeni literature
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