فتمكنوا بفضل مؤلفاتهم الناضجة القوية من أن يطهّروا المرسح ويحرّروه من ربقة المصطلحات الصبيانية السخيفة .
fa-tamakkanū bi-faḍli muʔallafāti-him al-nāḍiǧaẗ al-qawiyyaẗ min ʔan yuṭahhirū ’l-marsaḥ wa-yuḥarrirū-hu min rabaqaẗ al-muṣṭalaḥāt al-ṣibyāniyyaẗ al-saḫīfaẗ.
As a result, and thanks to their powerful and mature works, they [sc. the French] have been able to purify their stages and to liberate them from [the grip of] the lariat of silly childish expressions.
The reason for our [sc. Egypt’s] writers’ preoccupation with theatre and their neglect of narrative prose lies in the fact that theatre better guarantees them material profit and prestige in the literary scene1
