The entity of the past in the present of Arab culture according to the thought of "Ibrahim Abdullah Ghuloom"

Abstract

This article tackles the past as a cultural theme in the contest of Arabic culture, based on the efforts of the Bahraini thinker and theater critic  “Ibrahim Abduallah Ghaloum”, and it goes to demonstrate four forms of evocating the past in our time such as, the positive usage as a tool to understand the current situation since it is complicated version of the past, beside the intention of  seeking a foundation to awake and unfortunately in many cases it becomes a way to escape from facing the reality. And since “Ghaloum“ cared about the theater we are not going to deny that most of what this study discuss crosses with the theater in the Qatar and Bahrain, as all arts plays parts in the space of culture.