الغزو الثقافي الغربي و إشكالية المشهد المسرحي في الوطن العربي

Abstract EN

Cultural and linguistic diversity in the Arab world has a special feature that differs from the countries of the world in many matters by virtue of the type of religion that most of them follow.

This feature has made Arab countries make great efforts to preserve this diversity from all risks that could threaten it because it is a cultural asset that is not underestimated.

The historical dimension of the Arab countries also plays a role in influencing the linguistic reality in their societies, which made the decision-maker in the Arab world grant Arabic the status of the first official language and they noted for preserving it by all means.

The effect of this decision on preserving national unity, consolidating Arab identity and achieving cultural cohesion, despite some attempts at political employment of other languages, which left some unrest within the Arab community.

Arab socio-cultural specificity also plays a role in preserving identity security, and this cultural diversity is one of the rituals, customs, traditions and languages of a symbolic capital, where the saying says there is no future for a society that has no cultural identity, all this diversity we find through the patterns of society.

And theater is an element of the social system, which has a decisive role in employing the cultural and linguistic scenes that have become influenced in oneway or another on the behavior and thought of the individual.

The problem that the theater scene has become suffering from is the cultural invasion, meaning the Arab cultural diversity and its mixing with the Western cultural diversity, and this matter affected the growth and development of theater, and the lack of increasing its credibility among members of society, by virtue of that they are conservative Arab countries and the largest half of their members follow the Islamic religion, so some scenes The undesirable in social circles is affected indirectly by the theatrical scene and the lack of interest in it in the Arab world, because theater also has a constructive role in building the identity of community members.

Identity has great importance in building identity security, because it is based on belief, language and cultural heritage, and through it we lay foundations for it.

But in recent times, we have noticed a great influence of the Arab theater scene with the Western cultural diversity, which affected the percentage of viewership and its impact on members of society negatively, as we find there is a great aversion to many groups of Arab societies for theater and it no longer has the great value it enjoyed in the past, and this aversion to it Many factors, even the Internet may be the cause of this aversion, but the largest share is due to the cultural invasion.

Based on the above, we will try, through this research paper, to answer the following problem: Does cultural invasion have a role in the problematic of the Arab theater scene? How can the restructuring and engineering of the Arab theater scene be done through the Arab cultural diversity? How can we rely on the Western cultural diversity in the Arab theater scene without prejudice to the Arab cultural diversity? In light of this perception, we will try to rely on the descriptive and analytical approach to familiarity with the subject of the Western cultural invasion in the Arab world and the extent of its impact on the theatrical scene, and this approach helps us with changing the concepts and issues that our study addressed.