A Bullet in the Heart (play)

{{Short description|Egyptian play}}

{{Infobox film

| name = A Bullet in the Heart

| image =

| director = Kamal Hussein

| writer = Tawfiq El-Hakim

| starring = Salah Zulfikar

| studio = General Egyptian Organization for Cinema and Theater

| distributor = General Egyptian Organization for Cinema and Theater

| released = {{Film date|1964|11|22|df=yes}}

| runtime = 3 hours

| country = Egypt

| language = Arabic

}}

A Bullet in the Heart ({{langx|ar|رصاصة في القلب}}; translit.Rosasa Fil Qalb) is a 1964 Egyptian comedy play written by Tawfiq El-Hakim and directed by Kamal Hussein.{{Cite book |last=Long |first=Charles William Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UFhjAAAAMAAJ&q='a+bullet+in+the+heart'+tawfiq+al+hakim |title=Tawfiq Al Hakim, Playwright of Egypt |date=1979 |publisher=Ithaca Press |isbn=978-0-903729-35-2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Salem |first1=Ali |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2KhtAAAAMAAJ&q='a+bullet+in+the+heart'+tawfiq+al+hakim |title=A Drive to Israel: An Egyptian Meets His Neighbors |last2=Sālim |first2=ʻAlī |date=2001 |publisher=Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University |isbn=978-965-224-050-7 |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-07-04 |title=Egyptian actress Laila Taher recovers from Covid-19: 'I am feeling better' |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/2021/07/04/egyptian-actress-laila-taher-recovers-from-covid-19-i-am-feeling-better/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=The National |language=en}} It is based on Tawfiq El-Hakim's 1926 play with the same name.{{Cite book |last1=Ḥakīm |first1=Tawfīq |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jgMQAAAAYAAJ&q=%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8'+%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD+%D8%B0%D9%88+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1' |title=عصفور الشرق، توفيق الحكيم: "في حوارات حول أفكاره و آثاره" |last2=Yaʻqūb |first2=Lūsī |date=1987 |publisher=الدار المصرية اللبنانية، |language=ar}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u2QoAQAAMAAJ&q=%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8'+%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD+%D8%B0%D9%88+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1' |title=الغد |date=1965 |language=ar}}

It stars Salah Zulfikar in the leading role. This play is one of three plays of El-Hakim, in which the conclusion was open and unconvincing in that way,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zAsMAQAAMAAJ&q=%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8'+%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD+%D8%B0%D9%88+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1' |title=al-Masraḥ |date=October 1965 |publisher=al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Taʼlīf wa-al-Nashr. |language=ar}} and it was Salah Zulfikar's theatrical debut.{{Cite book |last=Starkey |first=Starkey Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cnUxEAAAQBAJ&dq='a+bullet+in+the+heart'+tawfiq+al+hakim&pg=PT107 |title=Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen |date=2016-06-02 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-0580-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Hutchins |first1=William M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCt8ft1qbn4C&dq='a+bullet+in+the+heart'+tawfiq+al+hakim&pg=PA165 |title=Tawfiq Al-Hakim: A Reader's Guide |last2=Hutchins |first2=William Maynard |date=2003 |publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers |isbn=978-0-89410-885-3 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Ḥakīm |first=Tawfīq |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptaAAAAAIAAJ&q='a+bullet+in+the+heart'+tawfiq+al+hakim |title=Plays, Prefaces & Postscripts of Tawfiq Al-Hakim: Theater of the mind |date=1981 |publisher=Three Continents Press |isbn=978-0-89410-148-9 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N_oLAQAAMAAJ&q=%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%A9+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8+1964 |title=قاموس تالمسرح |date=1996 |publisher=al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb |isbn=978-977-01-4269-1 |language=ar}}