The Character of the Intellectual in the Omani Drama script: A Reading in Cultural Patterns

Abstract

The Character of the Intellectual in the Omani drama script: A Reading in Cultural Contexts is a critical cultural study that addresses the intellectual personality in its various dimensions and cultural loads. Due to the concept of the intellectual personality has implied meanings; the study has taken cultural reading as a route to it, touching the intellectual personality, its formats, and references through its textual and cultural contexts. This study seeks to: Using five applied models of new Omani dramas scripts published between 2020 and 2025; "Brigitte Bardot's Cat" by Samaa Issa, 2020; "Scattered Feelings" by Naeem Fateh Noor, 2022; "Al-Istiqlab" by Osama Al-Sulaimi, 2023; "Testimony from the Field" by Mohammed Khalfan and Jalal Jawad, 2023; and "My Life with You is Shorter than Omar Warda!" by Hilal Al-Badi, 2025. The following six research components were included: (1) the writer/intellectual personality and the theatre problem; (2) the intellectual personality and the power struggle; (3) the intellectual personality and religion; (4) the intellectual personality and the issue of job seekers; (5) the intellectual personality and the conflict between the old and the new; and (6) the intellectual personality and the dialectic of the ego and the other. In conclusions, the intellectual character in the Omani drama script revealed a number of implicit connotations with social, cultural, and intellectual issues and concerns through the cultural patterns in societies. Particularly, Arab, Islamic, and Omani society, as following: Atheism and Religion; the Dialectic of the Ego and the other; the theatrical text problem; the conflict between the intellectual and the authority; and the issue of job seekers.