"If I had a job offer, I would like to leave and never look back, " says Randa Dallal.

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Mr Dallal added that despite rumours that there would be radical changes to Egyptian drama when Islamists were victorious in the parliamentary and presidential elections, this had so far not happened.

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"With an absence of Syrian productions, Egyptian productions have found themselves standing tall without any competition, which resulted in an increase in both quantity and quality, " said Mahmud Dallal, a lecturer at Cairo University's theatre studies department.

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