The Image of the Arab Woman in the Modern Hebrew Play - "Abeer" by Hajit Yaari As a Model

Abstract

Many Israeli writers dealt with the character of the Arab woman in their literary productions, such as the story, poetry and novel. Nevertheless, it offered many Hebrew playwrights a kind of arbitrary treatment, when they find themselves facing a modern world in which the Arab people are waging war against Israel's occupation. Then, some of them deliberately continued to distort the tendentious deform the image of the Arab women character in particular. Some writers tended to present a realistic image, and there was a tangible improvement in the image of the Arab character. Furthermore, it became the operator of a large space within the play, and some plays included only Arab feminist figures. Hajit Yaari performs her roles in the play, as this study deals with the representation of the Arab woman in the Hebrew theatrical production. In one of the West Bank villages, she started to describe the social, political and economic conditions and their effect on Arab women when she wrote the play 'Abeer' in 1992. For the first time in the history of the Hebrew play, the events of the whole play revolve around five Palestinian Arab women, after the Arab women was a secondary element in the play, became the main engine of events inside it.

The research also included the literary and stylistic study of the play, and it was observed that the Hebrew language was not a stand-alone language during the day but was based on other languages to cover the deficiency therein. Besides, after the Old Testament century, it has been clear that the Arabic language is the most dominant in the Hebrew language because the two languages belong to one linguistic family (Semitic languages).The study concluded that since the publication of the first play dealing with the image of the Arab character in 1911, most of the authors of the Hebrew plays have intentionally skewed and underestimated that image in return for raising the image of the Jewish-Israeli character. Israel, after that, reveals that Hebrew literature and Israeli politics are closely related and that both are complementary to the other.